Looks like a corrupted tar file.

Was that suggestion in the context of FTP? because with that there's ascii vs binary download. On HTTP there's no such thing, and you don't have to worry about corrupting it by downloading the wrong way.

Edward

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