[comp.windows.x] Motif tar

ram@Prawn.XAIT.Xerox.COM (Ramprasad Krishnamurthy) (09/04/90)

When I tried to untar young.motif.tar.Z from expo.lcs.mit.edu I got
 directory checksum error. I used the following command
    tar -xvf  young.motif.tar.Z

I had ftp'ed in binary mode.  Anyone can help.  Thanx.

mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (09/04/90)

> When I tried to untar young.motif.tar.Z from expo.lcs.mit.edu I got
>  directory checksum error. I used the following command
>     tar -xvf  young.motif.tar.Z

As indicated by the trailing .Z, it's a *compressed* tar file.
Uncompress it first, or if you want to uncompress and untar all at
once, you can just

% uncompress < young.motif.tar.Z | tar xvf -

[ All: this is posted because the poster didn't sign with
  an email address, and the header address looks dubious. ]

					der Mouse

			old: mcgill-vision!mouse
			new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu