Munir Nassar <m_nassar at yahoo.com> wrote: > > i got a bad .tar.bz file, is there a way to extract > the data it contains the only copy of my C++ homework > of the past month or so > > what i did was i did a "#tar -cIf foo.tar.bz <my home > dir>" [...] > here are the errors i get when extracting: > "$tar xzvf foo.tar.bz > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar Error exit delayed from previous errors" The problem here would be that you're trying to un-gzip a bzip'ed file. Have you tried `tar Ixvf foo.tar.bz'? Also note that the GNU tar folks keep changing the (un)bzip2 parameter. The safest command line for it is probably `tar --bzip2 -xvf foo.tar.bz2' -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Atheist = Deity / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Disadvantaged. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]