Re: Problem with tarring out a tar file

2010-07-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08Jul2010 17:39, JD wrote: | The files themselves are only a few (2 to 8) megabytes each. | So I do not believe it is the file size. | Perhaps there are some unprintable characters in the file | names or directory names that is preventing tar from creating | such files or directories. Shouldn'

Re: Problem with tarring out a tar file

2010-07-08 Thread JD
On 07/08/2010 05:25 PM, Les wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 16:13 -0700, jack craig wrote: >> On 07/08/2010 03:35 PM, JD wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I had downloaded a zip file under windows and unzipped it. >>> No problems. >>> The file names in the zipped archive are long german names, so >>> they ar

Re: Problem with tarring out a tar file

2010-07-08 Thread Les
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 16:13 -0700, jack craig wrote: > > On 07/08/2010 03:35 PM, JD wrote: > >Hi, > > I had downloaded a zip file under windows and unzipped it. > > No problems. > > The file names in the zipped archive are long german names, so > > they are displayed with special chars embedde

Re: Problem with tarring out a tar file

2010-07-08 Thread JD
On 07/08/2010 04:13 PM, jack craig wrote: > > On 07/08/2010 03:35 PM, JD wrote: >> Hi, >> I had downloaded a zip file under windows and unzipped it. >> No problems. >> The file names in the zipped archive are long german names, so >> they are displayed with special chars embedded in the file

Re: Problem with tarring out a tar file

2010-07-08 Thread JD
On 07/08/2010 03:56 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:35:48 -0700 > JD wrote: > >>Hi, >> I had downloaded a zip file under windows and unzipped it. >> No problems. >> The file names in the zipped archive are long german names, so >> they are displayed with special chars embedde

Re: Problem with tarring out a tar file

2010-07-08 Thread jack craig
On 07/08/2010 03:35 PM, JD wrote: >Hi, > I had downloaded a zip file under windows and unzipped it. > No problems. > The file names in the zipped archive are long german names, so > they are displayed with special chars embedded in the file names > and directory names, like > Barrè > Mächter

Re: Problem with tarring out a tar file

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:35:48 -0700 JD wrote: > Hi, > I had downloaded a zip file under windows and unzipped it. > No problems. > The file names in the zipped archive are long german names, so > they are displayed with special chars embedded in the file names > and directory names, like > Barrè