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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
