I second that emotion. Sometimes I have seen error messages when I forget to use -z. I scratch my head for a second and then try again. Jim Crumley 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. > -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff _______________________________________________ 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