On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:51:45AM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote

PS - I got a dd of th last tape that ran (finally) and it is about 3.6GB (about right). I extracted it as a tar.gz (which should work) but it fails claiming to not be a gzip archive... Any ideas on that front by chance?

*MAKE A BACKUP COPY OF THE TAR.GZ FILE FIRST* !!! Straight from the man page...

tar -xvvzf foo.tar.gz extract gzipped foo.tar.gz

..did you remember the "z" parameter ? I've had similar problems with tar.bz2 archives. I find that doing it one step at a time works. Note, you will need a *LOT* more diskspace. Step 1) zcat filename.tar.gz > filename.tar The "zcat" executable is named "gzcat" in some versions. Use whichever one works on your system. Step 2) tar -xvf filename.tar -- Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> Email users are divided into two classes; 1) Those who have effective spam-blocking 2) Those who wish they did -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml