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[Rey Paulo]

In article <11711 at mirsa.inria.fr> gilette at trinidad.inria.fr (Serge Gilette) writes:
>
>  I ftp archives from a site and i need to uncompress them,
>for they are tar file. I tryed to do tar -xf file.tar.Z
>but it gives me tar: directory checksum error (0 != -57),
>and if i use the -i option which is suppose to suppress
>such errors, it gives me a fulle page of errors !
>What shall i do ?
>
Do this:

zcat file.tar.Z | tar -xvf -

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