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[ILUG] Stupid Question time [tar]

[ILUG] Stupid Question time [tar]

Raymond Kelly ray at phbrink.ie
Fri Nov 26 18:15:33 GMT 1999


Dave Burke wrote:

or even (btw the pipeing could be arse ways due to brain fry-out As a
result of today's excessive usage of NT & MacOS)
uncompress  filename.tar.Z | tar xfv -
 
> Try tar zxvf filename.tar.Z ???

> > Stupid question time.
No such thing as a stiupid question, work the rest out as an excercise!
anyway. If you haven't seen this b4 check it out http://www.ntscuks.com

	Ray ...

> >                               I've got myself a .tar.Z file that I need to
> > extract.
> > However when I use tar xvf filename.tar.Z it spits back  tar :directory
> > checksum error
> > My question is what is this and what can I do to fix it?
> >
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