-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 tar is actually a gzip format ( i see this has already been answered ... )
i would have recommended using WinRAR, which seems to have no probz with doubled .tar-extension. cheerz, ald > -----Original Message----- > From: David Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: donderdag 26 juni 2003 20:52 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Newbie tarred and feathered > > > I realize this is hardly a FOP problem, but opening the > gift-wrapping has this newbie > stymied. I found the following message and reply in the archive, > which describes my > problem exactly, but no particular solution is offered. Can > someone enlighten me? > > Problem: I downloaded the latest FOP binary download > (fop-0.20.5rc3a-bin.tar.tar) from the > distribution site http://xml.apache.org/fop/download.htm. I dunno > what a tar file is, but > WinZip seems to think it can handle it, so I gather its a > compressed distribution format. > Winzip returns the error message "Error reading header after > processing 0 entries". Same > result with Winzip current 8.5 release and also their beta 9.0. > > So how does one untar a tar? Is there a preferred tool? Or is > the file damaged? > > David Hill, Camberley Systems, Needham MA > > > Reply by > J.Pietschmann > > Sounds like your untar utility is confused. I remember that > > *very* old tars have incompatiblities with more modern tars, in > > particular GNU tar, which may result in this error message. > > Another possiblity is that it either missed uncompressing, or > > that uncompressing failed and the error message was dropped > > somehow. > > In either case, you can try with another toolset, or at least > > identify the toolset you are using. > > ---original message--- > > Subject: Re: Newbie question about FOP > > Date: 2003-04-29 20:24:30 > > Pabolu, Adinarayana (MED, GEMS-IT) wrote: > I downloaded FOP( > http://xml.apache.org/dist/fop/fop-0.20.5rc2-bin.tar.gz from > http://xml.apache.org/dist/fop/. It is giving error " Error > reading header after > processing 0 entries". > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPvtDXtBw/OvTa+XUEQIhwgCg27jxxeoTHIDt852M89IqZoNB4OsAnjzZ H6GnGAy9KnL58xYXgLKWgimE =qnNr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
