1. euphor22.tar
A few people have reported that when they
try to open euphor22.tar using WinZip they get an
error message "error processing header after reading 0 entries".
This is because it's a *compressed* tar file, not a plain tar
file. If you rename euphor22.tar as euphor22.tgz and then
try WinZip on it, it should work. The tar command will also
fail on Linux unless you type:
tar -xvz -f euphor22.tar
The 'z' says it's a compressed tar file.
The instructions on the download page tell you to do this,
but I guess people tend to ignore the instructions and rely
on the file type.
Previously I tried naming the file with .tgz file type, and
that's fine, except that some versions of Netscape
think that .tgz is a "text" file, and so the line terminators are
changed, and the file will always be corrupted when it's
downloaded.
I could use the .tar.gz extension that seems
to be the standard in the Linux world, but I find the
file name gets mangled when downloading to DOS/Windows,
for instance Internet Explorer changes "euphor22.tar.gz"
into "euphor22_tar.tar", so you still end up with a .tar file
after downloading, plus the name is wrong.
For the time being, I'll just add a warning to the download page.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
2. Re: euphor22.tar
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> A few people have reported that when they
> try to open euphor22.tar using WinZip they get an
> error message "error processing header after reading 0 entries".
> This is because it's a *compressed* tar file, not a plain tar
> file. If you rename euphor22.tar as euphor22.tgz and then
> try WinZip on it, it should work. The tar command will also
> fail on Linux unless you type:
> tar -xvz -f euphor22.tar
> The 'z' says it's a compressed tar file.
Hi:
I have downloaded euphor22.tar 5 or 6 times. Only once did I get a copy
which would untar fully using tar -xvz -f .....
I had better luck with KFM, and none at all with ARK.
Usually the error (when using tar) is "unexpected end of file", somewhere around
the halfway mark. ARK refuses to open the files at all, and KFM works, up to
some point. The last time I could drag and drop everything up to the html
direcectory. After than, nothing.
Could there be something wrong with the server settings?
Perhaps you could also try serving the file via anonymous ftp?
Regards,
Irv
