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| Posted by
| Lumpei
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| Fri 05 Mar 2004 10:47 PM (UTC) |
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| Hola, All-
I downloaded smaugfuss from the website, and when i did a tar -xvf smaug14afuss.tar, i get the following errors:
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
Any ideas what this might mean? Again, I am using cygwin on an xp sp1 box.
I am going to have to learn to use Linux, aren't I? all to run an old fashioned text mud...
Any help will be appreciated. it is possible that a few beers will be appreciated more. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Samson
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| Reply #1 on Fri 05 Mar 2004 11:35 PM (UTC) |
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| The FUSS file is actually a tgz, not a tar, so you'll need to add a z to your command line options, like so:
tar -xzvf smaug14afuss.tgz
This will then unpack into a SmaugFUSS directory. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #2 on Sat 06 Mar 2004 12:06 AM (UTC) |
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| Posted by
| Samson
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| Reply #3 on Sat 06 Mar 2004 02:40 AM (UTC) |
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| | Yes, the Mozilla developers also had the same nasty habit there for awhile and you had to be careful how a file got saved. Though I find that the right-click/save-as method seems to solve this more often than not, even in IE. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| David Haley
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| Reply #4 on Sat 06 Mar 2004 04:02 AM (UTC) |
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| | This might be because the programs are relying on MIME-types, and just assume that any kind of "archive: zip" (or whatever the type is) is an actual zip file, not a zipped tar. *shrug* Then again, maybe the programmers are just wacko. :) |
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