[OPEN-ILS-DEV] tar.tar

[Mike Rylander]

On 3/19/07, fharrington at ocln.org <fharrington at ocln.org> wrote:
> I have tried tar and gunzip and uncompress - what is with this format of
> tar.tar ? I have downloaded these files as binary files. I've been doing this for
> twenty years but apparently something new has cropped into the way of
> doing things and I can't even untar, gunzip or uncompress these files - is
> this related to cvs or whatever it is could you  please be a little bit descriptive
> on how these files get untarred or unzipped or whatever they are. Is this a
> Debian detail ? I am on a centos linux distribution machine. I tried tar with a
> -z option as well and that also did not work. talk about getting tripped up in
> the preface...i found this same format on the koha downloads. What is this ?
>

I'm sorry ... what file are you talking about?  Specifically, what URL
are you downloading the offending file from?

> thanks.
>
> frank
>
> Frank Harrington
> Systems Manager
> Old Colony Library Network
> 220 Forbes Road
> Braintree, MA 02184
> (781)794-2513 ext 3
> fharrington at ocln.org
>


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