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SmaugFuss download error with tar

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Posted by Lumpei   (6 posts)  Bio
Date 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.
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Posted by Samson   USA  (683 posts)  Bio
Date 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.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,057 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #2 on Sat 06 Mar 2004 12:06 AM (UTC)
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Yes, if you look at the file name it is:

http://www.gammon.com.au/files/smaug/smaug14afuss.tgz

However I believe Internet Exploder has a habit of changing the suffix of downloads, for reasons best known to their programmers.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Samson   USA  (683 posts)  Bio
Date 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.
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Posted by David Haley   USA  (3,881 posts)  Bio
Date 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. :)

David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org
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