I don't think it's the hard drive. I moved it from a windows box to linux and had the same problem. I'll take a close look here, but for the mean time, I'm trying to get a new file. Thanks. -Josh On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 11:56:21 -0500, Jim Crumley <crumley at belka.space.umn.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:54:03AM -0500, Josh Close wrote: > > Yes, I tried it with -v also, and it just lists a directory and the > > file before it craps out. I tried using rar also and it got a lot > > farther, but no dice. > > Is the tar file gzipped of bzipped ? Sometimes the suffixes get > lost. Try "file" on it? Also, from googling on your error > messages it looks like this sometimes happens if a hardrive it > failing. Trying copying the tar somewhere else. Finally, try > opeing it up in an editor. If there are any text files in the > tar and its not compressed, you should be able to look around a > little. > > > > -- > Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) > crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ > Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list