>> Martin> Not necessarily so. Perhaps "gunzip figures.tar.gz" >> Martin> followed by "tar -xvf figures.tar" works out all right. >> I have tried that, I get a "unexpected EOF error" when gunziping
With very large files, 500+M, used to get bad gzips all the time. I never trusted it, and always had to check the new .gz with gzip -l . Do not know how gzip performs now. Since I back-up with dump(1). Try to use bzip ( not sure about the name, but it is in non-free). It might perform better than gzip. Or, try to buffer(1) the data before gzip sees them, maybe that will help. I don't think Debian has buffer(1), but you can get it from a sunsite mirror. It would be nice to know if Debian has a program that only buffers, anyone knows? Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, root wrote: > > > > Maybe `gzip -dc figures.tar.gz > somename.tar` (and tar afterwards) will do > better? -- just a thought... > > Dimitri > >