I think the checksum error comes from certain 'tar' versions which cannot
properly handle very long file names. By ignoring the errors you may be
ok, or you may have some loss with the longer file names. Try a
different implementation of tar. (Solaris 'tar' works.)
Chris
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On 2/1/01, 8:02:15 PM, Jeff Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding RE:
checksum error:
> I have had similar problems with many TAR files. I use the "i" option to
> ignore these errors and it seems to work fine:
> tar xvfi -
> Hope that helps.
> - Jeff
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> Subject: checksum error
> I try to tar tomcat4.0.tar but get a checksum error. How to fix it?
> Thanks,
> Peter
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