On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:50:54PM +0200, Evan James Dembskey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is more of a UNIX question I think, but the UNIX list sent me
> over here...
>
> when running gunzip on mysql-3.23.38-dec-osf5.1-alphaev6.tar.gz
> under a DEC Alpha box I get the following problems. What gives?
>
> # gunzip < mysql-3.23.38-dec-osf5.1-alphaev6.tar.gz | tar xf -
> tar: ././@LongLink : Unknown filetype
> tar: ././@LongLink : Unknown filetype
> tar: ././@LongLink : Unknown filetype
> tar: ././@LongLink : Unknown filetype
> tar: ././@LongLink : Unknown filetype
> tar: ././@LongLink : Unknown filetype
> tar: ././@LongLink : Unknown filetype
> tar: ././@LongLink : Unknown filetype
That's odd.
Maybe the verion of tar is buggy. Is it' DEC's tar, or GNU tar? If not
GNU tar, give it a try instead. The Solaris version of tar has had
problems in the past, so the same could be true of DEC's tar.
Jeremy
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