Re: Problem with tarring out a tar file

2010-07-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08Jul2010 17:39, JD wrote: | The files themselves are only a few (2 to 8) megabytes each. | So I do not believe it is the file size. | Perhaps there are some unprintable characters in the file | names or directory names that is preventing tar from creating | such files or directories. Shouldn'

Re: Problem with tarring out a tar file

2010-07-08 Thread JD
On 07/08/2010 05:25 PM, Les wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 16:13 -0700, jack craig wrote: >> On 07/08/2010 03:35 PM, JD wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I had downloaded a zip file under windows and unzipped it. >>> No problems. >>> The file names in the zipped archive are long german names, so >>> they ar

Re: Problem with tarring out a tar file

2010-07-08 Thread Les
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 16:13 -0700, jack craig wrote: > > On 07/08/2010 03:35 PM, JD wrote: > >Hi, > > I had downloaded a zip file under windows and unzipped it. > > No problems. > > The file names in the zipped archive are long german names, so > > they are displayed with special chars embedde

Re: Problem with tarring out a tar file

2010-07-08 Thread JD
On 07/08/2010 04:13 PM, jack craig wrote: > > On 07/08/2010 03:35 PM, JD wrote: >> Hi, >> I had downloaded a zip file under windows and unzipped it. >> No problems. >> The file names in the zipped archive are long german names, so >> they are displayed with special chars embedded in the file

Re: Problem with tarring out a tar file

2010-07-08 Thread JD
On 07/08/2010 03:56 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:35:48 -0700 > JD wrote: > >>Hi, >> I had downloaded a zip file under windows and unzipped it. >> No problems. >> The file names in the zipped archive are long german names, so >> they are displayed with special chars embedde

Re: Problem with tarring out a tar file

2010-07-08 Thread jack craig
On 07/08/2010 03:35 PM, JD wrote: >Hi, > I had downloaded a zip file under windows and unzipped it. > No problems. > The file names in the zipped archive are long german names, so > they are displayed with special chars embedded in the file names > and directory names, like > Barrè > Mächter

Re: Problem with tarring out a tar file

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:35:48 -0700 JD wrote: > Hi, > I had downloaded a zip file under windows and unzipped it. > No problems. > The file names in the zipped archive are long german names, so > they are displayed with special chars embedded in the file names > and directory names, like > Barrè

Problem with tarring out a tar file

2010-07-08 Thread JD
Hi, I had downloaded a zip file under windows and unzipped it. No problems. The file names in the zipped archive are long german names, so they are displayed with special chars embedded in the file names and directory names, like Barrè Mächter among others. So I tarred out the whole directory in