Help unarchiving 710_220pl4.tar.tar

registered · Worker Joined: Feb 18, 2004 Posts: 244

I am having a little trouble unarchiving the .tar file.

Normally I use winzip 8.1. When I tried I got: error reading header after proccessing 0 entries.

So I upgraded to winzip 9.0, but I still get the same error.

How do you unarchive it on Windows XP?? I did'nt want to ftp it to the server, untar it, and download all the individual files...

Thanks,
Darrell

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

You can thank Bill Gates for that fiasco. There are other posts on it here, but XP no longer likes tar or tar.gz files - it scrambles the headers. Try WinRar or some other program that works correctly.

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:32 pm

hmm

That used to do .tar files..

Okay, thanks I'll look for winrar.

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:34 pm

Do an all words search on "tar.tar" for more info. Also, try another browser, like FireFox.

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:13 pm

WinRar worked great for me.

thanks,