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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!bubba.ucc.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!uunet!fi.gs.com!qsss08!avraad From: avraad@qssw04.qsss08.gs.com (David Avraamides) Subject: Re: Problem with gzip on FBSD 2.0 bindist In-Reply-To: blymn@awadi.com.au's message of 02 Dec 1994 07:29:21 GMT Message-ID: <AVRAAD.94Dec9082852@qssw04.qsss08.gs.com> Sender: news@qsss08.gs.com Nntp-Posting-Host: qssw04 Organization: Goldman, Sachs & Co. References: <3bg7s3$49@edwin.bga.com> <JKH.94Nov30114654@whisker.hubbard.ie> <BLYMN.94Dec2175921@mallee.awadi.com.au> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 13:28:52 GMT Lines: 42 >>>>> Brett Lymn writes: # # In article <JKH.94Nov30114654@whisker.hubbard.ie> jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: # # #>> In article <3bg7s3$49@edwin.bga.com> phighley@bga.com #>> (Paul T. Highley) writes: This problem is clearly an #>> oversight on my part since people all over the #>> comp.os.386bsd* groups have successfully installed 2.0 #>> FreeBSD from the #> #> You're right! :-) #> #>> # gzip -c -d bindist.aa | tar -tvf - #> #> Uh. No. You're only doing the first part of what is a #> *split* archive. This message: gunzip: bindist.aa: #> unexpected end of file Is entirely correct! :-) #> #> Try instead: #> #> cat bindist.?? | gzip -c -d | tar -tvf - # # Jordan, # Shouldn't the tar command have the B option in there? viz: # # cat bindist.?? | gzip -c -d | tar -tvBf - # # to ensure that tar reads entire blocks from the pipe? Just a minor # nit.... The tar command under FreeBSD supports the -z options so you can just do: cat bindits.?? | tar tzf - -- David Avraamides Goldman, Sachs & Co. (212) 357-1346 avraad@qsss08.gs.com