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Subject : Re: LUG: tar eof problem

From : Alexander Ray <alexjray.ncsu@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:45:17 -0400

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Double check the file is correct.

Those commands should (iirc) untar a good tarball, so it's corrupted in some way.  Assuming your download is not corrupted (tried to untar it before it was finished downloading?), then the file itself on the server may be corrupted.

Any way to log on to the server and check?

(also, if this is anything we can access as engineering students, put up a link and we'll look at it)

~Alex

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Kyle Bolton < kabolton@ncsu.[redacted] > wrote:
Hi all,

Im trying to extract a tar file (not a tar.gz) with tar xvf file, also
tried tar xf file. Both are throwing EOF in archive errors. Its
suggested I try the download in binary, problem is the file is on a
webpage and Im not sure how to pull it off from there. Anyone know how
to pull a file from a http site via binary?

Thanks
Kyle

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Kyle Bolton
E115 Senior Instructor
ITECS EOS HelpDesk
Electrical And Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University

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