Not convinced it's tar as I develop on OSX and have not had any problems
untaring maven.  The mac's Stuffit utility truncates long file names, don't
know if this is your problem??

Andy

On 16/8/02 9:19 am, "Scott Eade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is this just the regular tar vs gnu tar problem with OS X?
> 
> Here is a quote from the tomcat download page
> (http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.1.9-beta/):
> 
> <quote>
> NOTE: The tar files in this distribution use GNU tar extensions, and must be
> untarred with a GNU compatible version of tar. The version of tar on Solaris
> and Mac OS X will not work with these files.
> </quote>
> 
> I am guessing that the same applies to the maven download.
> 
> I wonder if a .zip distribution would work?
> 
> Scott


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