Problems with .tar file

[Jose Luis Guerra]

Hello, I write from Spain and I'm novice in Linux World.

I have a problem processing  .tar file. When I write command "tar
xvf .tar" to extract the file qt-1_42_tar.tar, then computer
return then next error message:

tar: Hmm, this doesn`t look like a tar file
tar: Skipping to next file header
tar: Skipping to next file header
tar: Only read 1285 bytes from archive qt-1_42_tar.tar
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Please help me and sorry by my bad English. Regards

Problems with .tar file

[Jose Luis Guerra]

Hello, I write from Spain and I'm novice in Linux World.

I have a problem processing  .tar file. When I write command "tar
xvf .tar" to extract the file qt-1_42_tar.tar, then computer
return then next error message:

tar: Hmm, this doesn`t look like a tar file
tar: Skipping to next file header
tar: Skipping to next file header
tar: Only read 1285 bytes from archive qt-1_42_tar.tar
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Please help me and sorry by my bad English. Regards