On Friday 14 September 2001 18:31, rjtalbo wrote:
> I have been trying to uncompress DBI-1.18.tar.gz which I downloaded
> together with
> Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2216.tar.gz &
> Data-ShowTable-3.3.tar.gz
>
> from the MySQL down load page...
> I followed the direction in the DBE-1.18 README but if I use the pipe
> as instructed... gzip -cd DBI-1.18.tar.gz | tar xf -cd DBI-1.18
> I get .... tar: Cannot open -cd: No such file or directory
>
> if I try w/o -cd ... gzip -cd DBI-1.18.tar.gz | tar xf
> DBI-1.18.tar.gz
> I get....... tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next file header
> tar: Only read 3690 bytes from archive
> DBI-1.18.tar.gz
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> broken pipe
> Same if I drop the last .tar.gz
>
> If I try gzip -cd DBI-1.18.tar.gz
> The entire archive just decompresses and flashes across the console
> never to disk..
>
> Tried to uncompress on two machines same results
>
> Caldera Linux kernals 2.2.14 and 2.2.10
as you're using Linux, try
tar xzf DBI-1.18.tar.gz
which will unzip and unpack the whole caboodle into a directory called
DBI-1.18
HTH
Ian Barwick
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