On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Darxus wrote:
> I felt like checking. Oops. When I reinstalled & tried to restore it, I
> found out that gzip can't seek to the end of the file (dies around 2gb?).
You can force gzip to handle it as a stream. Try something like:
cat tarfile.tgz | gunzip -c | tar xvf -
The "-c" tells gunzip to pipe it to stdout, and the "xvf -" tells tar
to verbosely extract the file coming into stdin. If I understand your
problem correctly, this should work.
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Monkeys would be harder on equipment than college students,
but only because they're stronger." - Jim Ingles
