[Zope] quick question

[Dennis Allison]

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.