mmmmm..... Frosty cold beers at installfests.... :) Of course, I can verify, after many late nights at the bars, that beer and Unix do not mix, especially when trying to fix something that is seriously broken. Or was that beer and routers.... In any case, blurry terminals and keyboards that seem to move do not help. > -----Original Message----- > From: Munir Nassar [mailto:m_nassar at yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 11:43 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: [TCLUG] Re: bad tar.gz file > > > my files!!! > > well ill be darned... and i thought i had a bad file > transfer... > > next install fest you can down that pizza with an ice > cold Carlsberg... > > -munir > > > 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 ] > > > > --__--__-- > > > > > ===== > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.12 > GAT GIT dpu- s:- a19 C++ UL P+ L+(++) E--- W+ N+ w(--) K? O-- > M- V- PS+ PE-(--) Y-- PGP-(---) t 5+++ X R tv-- b+++ D++ DI++ > G e+ h+() r- y+ UF++ > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >