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