RE: Untarring startup-scripts.tgz

[Michael Nowak <mnowak at quixote dot colorado dot edu>]

Actually, I tried two different ftp's (the Cygwin ftp facility first,
then downloading via Netscape) from 3 or 4 different mirror sites (US,
Sweden).  The downloaded file seemed to be the same size as the
source, and I did untar as below, i.e., "tar -xvf startup-scripts.tgz"
and all produced the error message below.

I had been following the Documentation for installing Cygwin and
XFree86, and had no other problems with the other ftp'd files.  "bunzip2

extract.exe.bz2" and "./Xinstall.sh" both seemed to work
fine. (Although that was the only file I tried to untar within
Cygwin.)

I did note that the "startup-scripts.tgz" file at all the mirror sites
had the most recent date on it (July 2, a day or two after all the
other files within the directory), so I wondered about that.

But it was late, so I'll try a few more ftp facilities tonight and see
if I have better luck, unless somebody has a different suggestion.

-Mike Nowak

>How are you downloading?  Netscape?  It is being corrupted during
download.
>I know several users have downloaded and the archive is not corrupted.
>
>Suhaib
>
>1. Check that the downloaded file is of the same size as the source. If

>not try another site.
>2. If the file extension is .tgz then the option tar option is -xzf
>
>i.e tar -xzf filename.tgz
>
>Alfred Vahau
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>Downloading the July 2 dated version of the above (from various of the
>different mirror sites- all seem to be dated the same)
>doesn't seem to produce a readable file.  I instead get:
>
>tar: 146 garbage bytes ignored at end of archive
>tar: This does not look like a tar archive
>tar: Skipping to next header
>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>M. Nowak