Re: Statically linked 'tar'

Subject: Re: Statically linked 'tar'
From: Goswin Brederlow (goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de)
Date: Thu Oct 14 1999 - 01:22:51 PDT

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Martin Lucina <mato@kotelna.sk> writes:

> Hi all
>
> I seem to have run into some rather ugly data corruption and I need to restore
> my alpha from tape. However, the 'star' binary on the debian boot disks
> doesn't want to read my tape (keeps quitting with 'Error in archive'). Could
> someone compile up a statically linked /bin/tar for me?

How did you invoke star?
You probably use compression, but

star -xzvvf <tape>

won´t work. Try

zcat < <tape> | star

May the Source be with you.
                        Goswin

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