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#1 2006-10-26 18:25:08

makason

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From: Hilo, Hawaii

Registered: 2005-01-23

Posts: 34

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problem extract tar archive 4.04

when I try to extract or list content of txp 4.04 I get this error:
<code>
sh-2.05$ tar -tf textpattern-4.0.4.tar
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
</code>

I used to uploade and extract the archive on the server with tar -xvf textpattern…

#2 2006-10-26 19:10:20

ruud

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Registered: 2006-06-04

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Re: problem extract tar archive 4.04

Try: tar -xvzf instead of tar -xvf
The file you download is gzip compressed.

#3 2006-10-26 22:05:18

makason

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From: Hilo, Hawaii

Registered: 2005-01-23

Posts: 34

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Re: problem extract tar archive 4.04

thanks, that worked