--- Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is strange is this sounds a lot like tar. Here
> is the 512 byte
> header I made using the command 'tar cf test.tar
> main.cpp':
>
A couple of very good suggestions. I'll experiment a
bit with tar and see what comes up.
Also, thanks for
Larry writes:
> If I just gzip and gunzip a file, I don't get it either. I gziped
> these in batch ??
>
> There is a constant (as far as I've examined) 512 bytes on front,
> with a few ID things, like file name, etc, with lots of 0's.
>
> On the end, there's many more bytes, well over 1000. Ha
* Larry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030620 15:14]:
>
> --- Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I forget: was there a reason you didn't want to use
> > tar? That's usually what I do:
>
> The media I used wouldn't hold an entire directory,
> and gziping the files let me copy to the media till it
--- Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Larry said on Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 06:35:36AM -0700:
> >
> > --- Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > What is the exact commandline that you used to
> gzip
> > > your files?
> >
> > In a directory I wanted to move, I typed gzip *
>
Larry said on Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 06:35:36AM -0700:
>
> --- Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > What is the exact commandline that you used to gzip
> > your files?
>
> In a directory I wanted to move, I typed gzip *
>
> I didn't do the recursive command (didn't know about
> it),
--- Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What is the exact commandline that you used to gzip
> your files?
In a directory I wanted to move, I typed gzip *
I didn't do the recursive command (didn't know about
it), but moved to each directory in the tree and did
another gzip *
_
Larry said on Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:06:08PM -0700:
> If I just gzip and gunzip a file, I don't get it
> either. I gziped these in batch ??
What is the exact commandline that you used to gzip your files?
M
pgp0.pgp
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--- Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was not able to re-produce this error.
>
> If there is some kind of standard trait in each of
> the deformed files
> (always 512 bytes on top, 16 on bottom), then you
> can always write
> some kind of code to correct the documents.
>
> It sound
Larry writes:
> I gzipped a bunch of files for easier transport to
> another machine. Both machines running Woody.
>
> When I gunzip them, they have some binary info on both
> ends of the file, with the original content inbetween.
>
> Is there some way to unzip them that will get rid of
> this
I gzipped a bunch of files for easier transport to
another machine. Both machines running Woody.
When I gunzip them, they have some binary info on both
ends of the file, with the original content inbetween.
Is there some way to unzip them that will get rid of
this header/footer information put t
es me
Rod..
> --
> From: Shaleh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 10:26 AM
> To: Person, Rod
> Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
> Subject: Re: gzip problems...Newbie!
>
> 1) use dpkg on .deb files.
>Also when I tried leap. I got error that it could not create
> directory or file. For leap I tried
> gzip -cd leap-1_2.deb | tar -xO
> gzip -cd leap-1_2.deb | tar -xf
> gzip -cd leap-1_2.deb | tar -xF install
> help a newbie please.
The leap-1.2.deb file
just try tar -xzvf filename.gz this will take care of everything at
once.
Hey All,
I downloaded some *.gz (midnight commander, leap database and
maxwell). I have followed the various instructions on extracting these
programs bu
> 1) use dpkg on .deb files. dpkg -I my_package.deb as root installs.
> 2) gzip -dc my_targz.tar.gz| tar xvf - should work. tar does not need
> the hyphen before its arguments.
or, more simply,
tar -zxvf my_targz.tar.gz
the z option (not in some other unix version) causes gzip compression/
d
1) use dpkg on .deb files. dpkg -I my_package.deb as root installs.
2) gzip -dc my_targz.tar.gz| tar xvf - should work. tar does not need
the hyphen before its arguments.
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=
Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today
>
> Hey All,
>
> I downloaded some *.gz (midnight commander, leap database and
> maxwell). I have followed the various instructions on extracting these
> programs but "here's the rub"..
mc is definatly a .deb, and I thinkthe others may well be. If they
are, then you're m
Hey All,
I downloaded some *.gz (midnight commander, leap database and
maxwell). I have followed the various instructions on extracting these
programs but "here's the rub"..
mc say to use this.
gzip -d
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