Simple question. Did you ftp in binary mode? Mark Jacobs
Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, May 3, 2019 2:26 PM, Neale Ferguson <ne...@sinenomine.net> wrote: > When I scp or sftp the tar ball to the Linux system it complains that it > doesn't recognize the file as an archive: > > $ tar -tf inc.tar > tar: This does not look like a tar archive > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors > > I had created it with tar -cf inc.tar ./headers > > Neale > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN