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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

9339.0. "How to untar information on FREEWARE CD-ROM?" by TENNIS::KAM (AltaVista Software 714/261-4133 DTN 535.4133) Tue Apr 01 1997 00:13

    Anyone know how to untar the information on the FREEWARE CD-ROM?
    
    When we try to untar the information this is what we get:
    
    blocksize = 76
    tar mstools.tar : This doesn't look like a tar archive
                    : Skipping to next file ...
                    : Ready for Volume 2
                    : Type "go" when ready to proceed ( or "quit" to abort)
    
    Whatever utility we try we get the same message.  We also tried using
    ZIP on a Windows 95 and NT system and it also complained that it
    couldn't understand the archive type.  We've successfully used WinZip
    to untar .tar files.
    
    Any ideas would be appreciated.
    
    	Regards,

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
9339.1	may have been the old Freeware CD	SMURF::SEAGRAVES	Jim, Digital UNIX Tech. Partners. Eng. Grp.,381-6199	`Tue Apr 01 1997 17:04`	22
	1) The current set is in a cardboard cover dated Dec 96/Feb 97. mstools is mstools-20.tar.gz which is a set of ASCII files. Use gunzip, and then tar xvf to do the extract. 2) The original Freeware CD may have had an error in that tar file. 3) The mstool set is on Digital UNIX V4.0. 4) The (very) latest mstools is version 3.x and can be found on the current LINUX distribution. We'll be updating the Freeware CD src version to it shortly.
9339.2		TENNIS::KAM	AltaVista Software 714/261-4133 DTN 535.4133	`Tue Apr 01 1997 18:00`	9
	2) The original Freeware CD may have had an error in that tar file. Customer is using the media that comes with 4.0. They tried a number of tar files in the FREEWARE section with the same issues. We'll try and get them another CD. Regards,
9339.3	Freeware CD(s) are on the web...	AMCUCS::SWIERKOWSKI	Quot homines tot sententiae	`Wed Apr 02 1997 17:21`	25
	Greetings! The "Freeware CD" (both sources and executables) that came with my V4.0 distribution kit mount just fine and I was able to unzip the mstools.tar.gz file and then un-tar it okay, so you must have a bad CD. In the meantime, your customer doesn't have to wait for a real CD if they have Web access, just open up the "Demos, Shareware and Freeware" page at: - http://www.unix.digital.com/demos/index.html This still has links for the 1993 Freeware CD(s) and the current (1996) Freeware CD's, they can pull mstools.tar.gz directly from: - http://www.unix.digital.com/demos/freesrc/Freeware_Digital_src/ Cheers... Tony Swierkowski Digital Equipment Corporation Software Partner Engineering Palo Alto, California (415) 617-3601 "[email protected]"