Soundmedem-.10 file not uncompressing

Soundmedem-.10 file not uncompressing

[Phil]

Hello,

Having recently renewed my interest in amateur radio I decided to have
another look at APRS.

After successfully installing the latest versions of the ax25 files I have
run into a problem with soundmodem-.10. I downloaded the tar.gz file from 
the baycom site but ite seems to have a problem, as follows:

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Can anyone offer a suggestion?

By the way, an older version (soundmodem-.7) that I've used in the past
uncompress without any problems.

Regards,
Phil.

Re: Soundmedem-.10 file not uncompressing

[Bent]

Hi Phil

2007/11/9, Phil <phillor@telstra.com>:
> ...
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> Can anyone offer a suggestion?
>

What does the file(1) program tell you about the alleged tar.gz file?

Bent/OZ6BL

Re: Soundmedem-.10 file not uncompressing

[Frank Brickle]

Did you use the command
    tar zxvf  name-of-your-gzipped-tarball
?

73
Frank
AB2KT



On Nov 10, 2007 3:23 AM, Bent <bbagger@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Phil
>
> 2007/11/9, Phil <phillor@telstra.com>:
> > ...
> > tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> > tar: Skipping to next header
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> >
> > Can anyone offer a suggestion?
> >
>
> What does the file(1) program tell you about the alleged tar.gz file?
>
> Bent/OZ6BL
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Re: Soundmedem-.10 file not uncompressing

[Phil]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Brickle" <brickle@pobox.com>
To: "Bent" <bbagger@gmail.com>
Cc: "Phil" <phillor@telstra.com>; <linux-hams@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: Soundmedem-.10 file not uncompressing


> Did you use the command
>    tar zxvf  name-of-your-gzipped-tarball


Hello again,

Thank you for the replies to my question.

tar -zxvf soundmodem-0.10.tar.gz failed but tar -zxvf soundmodem-0.7.tar.gz
uncompressed without a problem, so I thought that the file
soundmodem-0.10.tar.gz must be faulty in some way. The solution was to first
gunzip soundmodem-0.10.tar.gz and then pass the result to tar, as was
suggested.

Because I cannot get recent versions of Mandriva to generate a /dev/ttyUSB0
device for my PCMCIA modem I'm forced to use Windows for Internet access (an
extremely frustrating situation). Perhaps Windows somehow corrupted  this
particular tar.gz file?

Regards,
Phil.

Re: Soundmedem-.10 file not uncompressing

[IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR]

Mr. Bricle, et alia:

    Indeed it is particularly instructive to note that the "tar zxvf
name-of-your-gzipped-tarball" is presumptive to the fact that indeed the
tarball has been size reduced with gzip!

    It is entirely possible to use "j" (vice little "z") for bzip, or even
to use "Z" (big "Z") for compress/uncompress as appropriate.


V/R,

Stuart, N3GWG


On 11/10/07 12:39 AM, "Frank Brickle" <brickle@pobox.com> wrote:

> Did you use the command
>     tar zxvf  name-of-your-gzipped-tarball
> ?
> 
> 73
> Frank
> AB2KT
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 10, 2007 3:23 AM, Bent <bbagger@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Phil
>> 
>> 2007/11/9, Phil <phillor@telstra.com>:
>>> ...
>>> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
>>> tar: Skipping to next header
>>> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>>> 
>>> Can anyone offer a suggestion?
>>> 
>> 
>> What does the file(1) program tell you about the alleged tar.gz file?
>> 
>> Bent/OZ6BL
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-- 

Very Respectfully,

IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR
Las Vegas, NV / Beverly Hills, CA / Philadelphia, PA / Washington, DC
Amateur Radio Call Sign: N3GWG (Extra) / Marine Radio Operator Permit (MROP)
email: teners@bh90210.net (also carbon copies to my Blackberry)
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Re: Soundmedem-.10 file not uncompressing

[Frank Brickle]

The convention is, .tgz for .tar.gz and therefore gzip; .tbz for
.tar.bz2 and therefore bzip2.

73
Frank
AB2KT

On Nov 10, 2007 10:05 PM, IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR
<teners@bh90210.net> wrote:
> Mr. Bricle, et alia:
>
>     Indeed it is particularly instructive to note that the "tar zxvf
> name-of-your-gzipped-tarball" is presumptive to the fact that indeed the
> tarball has been size reduced with gzip!
>
>     It is entirely possible to use "j" (vice little "z") for bzip, or even
> to use "Z" (big "Z") for compress/uncompress as appropriate.
>
>
> V/R,
>
> Stuart, N3GWG
>
>
> On 11/10/07 12:39 AM, "Frank Brickle" <brickle@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > Did you use the command
> >     tar zxvf  name-of-your-gzipped-tarball
> > ?
> >
> > 73
> > Frank
> > AB2KT
> >
> >
> >
> > On Nov 10, 2007 3:23 AM, Bent <bbagger@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Phil
> >>
> >> 2007/11/9, Phil <phillor@telstra.com>:
> >>> ...
> >>> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> >>> tar: Skipping to next header
> >>> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> >>>
> >>> Can anyone offer a suggestion?
> >>>
> >>
> >> What does the file(1) program tell you about the alleged tar.gz file?
> >>
> >> Bent/OZ6BL
> >> -
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>
>
> --
>
> Very Respectfully,
>
> IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR
> Las Vegas, NV / Beverly Hills, CA / Philadelphia, PA / Washington, DC
> Amateur Radio Call Sign: N3GWG (Extra) / Marine Radio Operator Permit (MROP)
> email: teners@bh90210.net (also carbon copies to my Blackberry)
> phone: +(1) 310.358.0202 (Beverly Hills, CA, forwards to mobile phone)
> phone: +(1) 215.338.6005 (Philadelphia, PA, voice mail only)
> phone: +(1) 702.988.3989 (Las Vegas, NV, voice mail only)
> E-Fax: +(1) 915.773.0935 (Telecopier, fax to email gateway)
>
> Military emails (checked monthly until remote NMCI access is secured)
> NIPRNET: stuart.tener@navy.mil / tenerstu@nro.mil
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Re: Soundmedem-.10 file not uncompressing

[walter harms]

hi all,

instead of guessing you can identify the file using the 'file' utility.
eg.
 file archive.tar.gz
 archive.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix

 file libsx-2.06.tar.bz2
 libsx-2.06.tar.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k


it is much more reliable then hoping that the suffix will give a hint.
e.g. mv foo.tar.gz foo.tar.bz2
(note: i have seen people doing that)

re,
 walter


Frank Brickle wrote:
> The convention is, .tgz for .tar.gz and therefore gzip; .tbz for
> .tar.bz2 and therefore bzip2.
> 
> 73
> Frank
> AB2KT
> 
> On Nov 10, 2007 10:05 PM, IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR
> <teners@bh90210.net> wrote:
>> Mr. Bricle, et alia:
>>
>>     Indeed it is particularly instructive to note that the "tar zxvf
>> name-of-your-gzipped-tarball" is presumptive to the fact that indeed the
>> tarball has been size reduced with gzip!
>>
>>     It is entirely possible to use "j" (vice little "z") for bzip, or even
>> to use "Z" (big "Z") for compress/uncompress as appropriate.
>>
>>
>> V/R,
>>
>> Stuart, N3GWG
>>
>>
>> On 11/10/07 12:39 AM, "Frank Brickle" <brickle@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Did you use the command
>>>     tar zxvf  name-of-your-gzipped-tarball
>>> ?

Re: Soundmedem-.10 file not uncompressing

[don]

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On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 03:19:42AM +1000, Phil wrote:
> ...
> tar -zxvf soundmodem-0.10.tar.gz failed but tar -zxvf soundmodem-0.7.tar.gz
> uncompressed without a problem, so I thought that the file
> soundmodem-0.10.tar.gz must be faulty in some way. The solution was to 
> first
> gunzip soundmodem-0.10.tar.gz and then pass the result to tar, as was
> suggested.

Maybe you have a corrupted file?

The copy of soundmodem-0.10.tar.gz which I just downloaded from

http://www.baycom.org/~tom/ham/soundmodem/soundmodem-0.10.tar.gz

Is 491112 bytes.  The command "md5sum soundmodem-0.10.tar.gz" returns

6bf9acaf19c55e57628a49bdff79c8f9  soundmodem-0.10.tar.gz

The above tar command works just fine.


Maybe your tar program is damaged?  

I have attached a small test file which you can try to untar.

-- 
Don - W7DMR

[-- Attachment #2: test.tar.gz --]
[-- Type: application/octet-stream, Size: 128 bytes --]

Re: Soundmedem-.10 file not uncompressing

[Bernard Pidoux]

Hi,

I found that a simple "tar xvf" usually works, i.e. omitting the zip 
option (z for zip and j for zip2).
So, you don't need to try "tar xvzf" and then "tar xvjf" if the first 
attempt fails.

73 de bernard, f6bvp



walter harms wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> instead of guessing you can identify the file using the 'file' utility.
> eg.
>  file archive.tar.gz
>  archive.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix
> 
>  file libsx-2.06.tar.bz2
>  libsx-2.06.tar.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k
> 
> 
> it is much more reliable then hoping that the suffix will give a hint.
> e.g. mv foo.tar.gz foo.tar.bz2
> (note: i have seen people doing that)
> 
> re,
>  walter
> 
> 
> Frank Brickle wrote:
>> The convention is, .tgz for .tar.gz and therefore gzip; .tbz for
>> .tar.bz2 and therefore bzip2.
>>
>> 73
>> Frank
>> AB2KT
>>
>> On Nov 10, 2007 10:05 PM, IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR
>> <teners@bh90210.net> wrote:
>>> Mr. Bricle, et alia:
>>>
>>>     Indeed it is particularly instructive to note that the "tar zxvf
>>> name-of-your-gzipped-tarball" is presumptive to the fact that indeed the
>>> tarball has been size reduced with gzip!
>>>
>>>     It is entirely possible to use "j" (vice little "z") for bzip, or even
>>> to use "Z" (big "Z") for compress/uncompress as appropriate.
>>>
>>>
>>> V/R,
>>>
>>> Stuart, N3GWG
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/10/07 12:39 AM, "Frank Brickle" <brickle@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did you use the command
>>>>     tar zxvf  name-of-your-gzipped-tarball
>>>> ?
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> 

Re: Soundmedem-.10 file not uncompressing

[walter harms]

Bernard Pidoux wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found that a simple "tar xvf" usually works, i.e. omitting the zip
> option (z for zip and j for zip2).
> So, you don't need to try "tar xvzf" and then "tar xvjf" if the first
> attempt fails.
> 
> 73 de bernard, f6bvp
> 
> 
> 

hi all,
 the v option means only verbose but can test the file using t(z)f.
 I test files always with vtzf to make sure that they do stay in a certain
 directory and do not fill mit current working directory :)


re,
 wh