tar troubles

2001-09-05 Thread Tom Wilson
Hi all, I moved from eDesktop 2.4 to Redhat 7.1 and when backing up and saving personal stuff, I tarred up my mail directory and bzip2 it up on to a zip disk. Now when trying to retrieve my mail directory, it bunzip2's ok but it won't untar. tar xvf mail.tar puts me right back to a prompt

Re: tar troubles

2001-09-05 Thread Kurt Wall
Tom Wilson wrote: > Hi all, > > I moved from eDesktop 2.4 to Redhat 7.1 and when backing up and saving > personal stuff, I tarred up my mail directory and bzip2 it up on to a > zip disk. > > Now when trying to retrieve my mail directory, it bunzip2's ok but it > won't untar. > > tar xvf ma

Re: tar troubles

2001-09-05 Thread Myles Green
Tom Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I moved from eDesktop 2.4 to Redhat 7.1 and when backing up and saving > personal stuff, I tarred up my mail directory and bzip2 it up on to a > zip disk. > > Now when trying to retrieve my mail directory, it bunzip2's ok but it > won't unta

Re: tar troubles

2001-09-06 Thread Tom Wilson
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:25 pm, Kurt Wall dropped these nuggets of information: Hi Kurt, Sorry it took awhile to get back. Output is below. > What is the output of: > > $ file mail.tar mail.tar: ASCII text, with no line terminators > $ ls -l mail.tar -rw-rw-r--1 tom to

Re: tar troubles

2001-09-06 Thread Tom Wilson
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:40 pm, Myles Green dropped these nuggets of information: Hi Myles, Sorry it took awhile to get back. No problem with the questions. Answers dispersed throughout. > > A few questions, if I may. When you tar'd your mail folder what was > the command you used?

Re: tar troubles

2001-09-06 Thread Net Llama
--- Tom Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:40 pm, Myles Green dropped these > nuggets of information: > > Hi Myles, > > Sorry it took awhile to get back. No problem with the questions. > Answers dispersed throughout. > > > > > A few questions, if I may. W

Re: tar troubles

2001-09-06 Thread Tom Wilson
On Thursday 06 September 2001 11:05 pm, Net Llama dropped these nuggets of information: > --- Tom Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snips] Hi Lonni > > tar cvf mail.tar mail > > Ummm...is 'mail' a file or a directory? If its a standard UNIX mail > file, then its, well, a file. tar is for cre

Re: tar troubles

2001-09-06 Thread Kurt Wall
Tom Wilson wrote: > I asked: > > What is the output of: > > > > $ file mail.tar > > mail.tar: ASCII text, with no line terminators It's not a tar file, then. Here's the output for a tarball: $ file test.tar test.tar: GNU tar archive > Thanks. I appreciate the help. Try $ vi -b mail.tar

Re: tar troubles

2001-09-07 Thread Net Llama
--- Tom Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 06 September 2001 11:05 pm, Net Llama dropped these > nuggets > of information: > > --- Tom Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snips] > > Hi Lonni > > > > tar cvf mail.tar mail > > > > Ummm...is 'mail' a file or a directory? If its a s

Re: tar troubles

2001-09-07 Thread Tom Wilson
On Thursday 06 September 2001 11:58 pm, Kurt Wall dropped these nuggets of information: > Tom Wilson wrote: > > I asked: > > > What is the output of: > > > > > > $ file mail.tar > > > > mail.tar: ASCII text, with no line terminators > > It's not a tar file, then. Here's the output for a tarball:

Re: tar troubles

2001-09-07 Thread Tom Wilson
On Friday 07 September 2001 09:36 am, Net Llama dropped these nuggets of information: [snippage] > > Oh, well. I was hoping. When you created the archive, did you see > it add all the files? Is it possible that you used a much newer > version of tar to create the archive than you're using to