On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 JEdw411@aol.com wrote:
My question is - I downloaded the linux full version of Zope. It downloads with a .tar extension but when I called it from Telnet I received the following error message:
tar -xf Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86.tar This does not look like a tar file Skipping to next header 331 garbage bytes ignored at end of archive Error exit delayed from previous errors
Is this a download problem as I did notice that downloading from Zope.org is very time-consuming whereas I have a cable connection and anywhere else it takes a matter of seconds. I've redownloaded it three times and even tried other packages but the same basic errors comes up each time. Can you shed some light on this or point me to your forum so that I may enlist the help of other users?
The tarball you downloaded is probably not a tar file (extension .tar) but a gzipped tar file (extension .tgz). Check this with file Zope... If it's a tgz file you need to unpack it tar xzvf Zope.... One other thing to watch--some older ftp systems default to ASCII mode and munge the file in transit. To be safe, always specify 'bin' explicitly.