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

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

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

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

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

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