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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: getting freebsd Date: 31 Jan 1997 22:30:22 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5ctrpu$3ps@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5c996g$kfk@kudo.kudonet.com> <5catbj$a5t@boursy.news.erols.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34610 mcampbel@erols.com (M. Campbell or Lee Cremeans ) wrote: > >I use bin xfer mode for ftp on a sun Unix machine.. > >After this, I use cat"sbin.?? |tar tvf - " to test the download and it > >always fail. > > The files are gzipped. Usr tar -xzvf instead. Since he's mentioning a Sun, GNU tar is probably not available. So the stock generic Unix way is: cat sbin.?? | gzip -dc | tar tvf - -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)