Re: HELP: Repair of tar.gz files??
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Rick Younie wrote: If the file was corrupted by being transferred in ascii mode instead of binary, you can fix it. There's a program in the window's world called NOCRLF that will do it. Or if you have a language or a good hex editor, replace the carriage return/line feed pairs with a linefeed and that will fix. No, generally you can't fix binary files downloaded in ASCII mode. The CR - CR/LF transformation is irreversible for binary files. That is, there may have been some (valid) CR/LF's in the binary file at first, which will then be converted into CR's by the reverse transformation. If you're lucky it might work, though. Yeah, when the tech on my ISP posted this I emailed him directly rather than posting to the newsgroup so as not to embarrass him. We've probably all heard 'irretrievably corrupted' many times over the years; it's common knowledge. But it works. I've done it and it never fails if this is the cause of the corruption. As he patiently explained to me, it works because any legal cr/lf's are converted to cr/cr/lf and you convert them back to cr/lf. If you were doing this recursively, that would be a problem. Best, Rick
Re: HELP: Repair of tar.gz files??
I dwnloaded newsletr.tar.gz from the CTAN site. On attempting a tar xvfz, I got: icarus:~/writing/newsletter tar xvfz newsletr.tar.gz tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next file header Is there anything I can do to recover the file, or am I out of luck for a Tex newsletter include?? When I use netscape to download a file, it uncompresses it but doesn't change the name. So for the heck of it, try: $ tar xvf newsletr.tar.gz -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/
Re: HELP: Repair of tar.gz files??
Rick Younie wrote: If the file was corrupted by being transferred in ascii mode instead of binary, you can fix it. There's a program in the window's world called NOCRLF that will do it. Or if you have a language or a good hex editor, replace the carriage return/line feed pairs with a linefeed and that will fix. No, generally you can't fix binary files downloaded in ASCII mode. The CR - CR/LF transformation is irreversible for binary files. That is, there may have been some (valid) CR/LF's in the binary file at first, which will then be converted into CR's by the reverse transformation. If you're lucky it might work, though. -- /'`\ zzzZ | My PGP Public Key is available at: ( - - ) | http://home1.inet.tele.dk/renehl/ --oooO--(_)--Oooo-- Don't ya just hate it when there's not enough room to fin
HELP: Repair of tar.gz files??
I dwnloaded newsletr.tar.gz from the CTAN site. On attempting a tar xvfz, I got: icarus:~/writing/newsletter tar xvfz newsletr.tar.gz tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next file header Is there anything I can do to recover the file, or am I out of luck for a Tex newsletter include?? Albert Hurd
Re: HELP: Repair of tar.gz files??
Thats wrong. The four letter contains only one option with an additional paramter (the filename). I bet Albert had only forgotten to switch in binary mode before download. -Egon On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: Make sure that f is the LAST option just before the filename. Try it this way: tar zxvf newsletr.tar.gz On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: I dwnloaded newsletr.tar.gz from the CTAN site. On attempting a tar xvfz, I got: icarus:~/writing/newsletter tar xvfz newsletr.tar.gz tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next file header Is there anything I can do to recover the file, or am I out of luck for a Tex newsletter include?? Albert Hurd -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null George Bonser The Linux We're never going out of business sale at an FTP site near you! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: HELP: Repair of tar.gz files??
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: I dwnloaded newsletr.tar.gz from the CTAN site. On attempting a tar xvfz, I got: icarus:~/writing/newsletter tar xvfz newsletr.tar.gz tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next file header Is there anything I can do to recover the file, or am I out of luck for a Tex newsletter include?? Albert: The one thing you can try is zcat newsletr.tar.gz | tar vx This will unpack as far as the error. I don't know what else you might do from that point. Can you download this again? I hope someone else has an answer for that. --David --- LINUX: because I want to get there *TODAY*(thanks Shaleh) David B Teague | Ask me how user interface copyrights software patents [EMAIL PROTECTED] | make programming a dangerous business.
