Re: problem untaring oracle 8i file

I don't know if this applied to Linux.. nor do I know which version of tar RH 7.2 is running

But I recently had to download 'GNU TAR' from one of the sites (search google) in order to untar one of Oracle supplied files (OAS wireless beta), it wouldn't worked w/ any of Solaris supplied versions of tar (there are two).

On Tue, 7 May 2002 08:08:28 -0400, "Jose Santana" <Jose_at_lordwest.com> wrote:

>I'm having a problem installing Oracle 8i in my Red Hat 7.2 box. I
>downloaded the file linux81701.tar and I try untaring with: tar xvf
>linux81701.tar
>The extraction goes fine for a little while and then it stops. The
>following is the last line shown on the screen and the error messages:
>:
>Disk1/stage/Components/oracle.rdbms.seeddb/8.1.7.0.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded/se
>ed/system01.dbf.jar
>?r-xr-xr-x 47202/502 6277054 2001-01-16 18:14:13 unknown file type ` '
>tar: Skipping to next header
>tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
>tar: Error is not recoverable. Exiting now
>
>I try re-downloading the file from oracle.com just to make sure it hadn't
>gotten corrupted, but the result was still the same. Can anyone see what
>the problem might be?
>Your help is appreciated
>
>

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