>> On 21 Aug 1997 13:00:58 -0500,
>> Jason L Tibbitts(JLT) wrote:
>>>>>> "GS" == Gary Sargent <gary.sargent_at_gecm.com> writes:
GS> I have downloaded fvwm-2.0.46.tar.gz twice (to ensure I didn't have any
GS> transmission errors), and every time I try to extract it I get the
GS> following error:
GS> hfmngxs_at_sed_sparc8$ tar -xf fvwm-2.0.46.tar tar: read error: unexpected
GS> EOF
JLT> I just copied it straight from the FTP area and extracted it with both GNU
JLT> tar and the version Sun ships without problems. There have been several
JLT> hundreds of downloads of 2.0.46 and I haven't seen any complaints.
FWIW, there is an error in the tar file, but most tar's can deal with
it:
$ gzip -dc ~/.public/fvwm/fvwm-2.0.46.tar.gz | star -x
star: Incorrect EOF, second EOF block is missing.
star: 372 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 3809280 bytes = 3720.00k).
$ mv fvwm-2.0.46 fvwm-2.0.46.star
$ gzip -dc ~/.public/fvwm/fvwm-2.0.46.tar.gz | /usr/bin/tar -xf -
$ mv fvwm-2.0.46 fvwm-2.0.46.sun
$ gzip -dc ~/.public/fvwm/fvwm-2.0.46.tar.gz | /usr/local/bin/tar -xf -
$ diff -rc fvwm-2.0.46.star fvwm-2.0.46.sun
$ diff -rc fvwm-2.0.46.star fvwm-2.0.46
$ diff -rc fvwm-2.0.46 fvwm-2.0.46.sun
(i.e., the files are extracted as GNU tar and sun-solaris-2.5 extracts
them, but they don't issue any warnings).
star is a 100% POSIX compliant version of tar.
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