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legacy-saxman
08-29-2003, 11:41 AM
i can't get the package to untar ... anyone else have this problem?? what was the solution?

thanks
NakedApe
08-29-2003, 03:46 PM
Here's a revolutionary idea: Try to search these forums for "tar.tar".

No, I guess that's too much to ask... Sheesh!
legacy-mumbo$jumbo
08-29-2003, 04:38 PM
Well, this is a FAQ. I think it would be nice to have a sticky faq tread in this forum.
legacy-crayolarx
08-29-2003, 07:11 PM
Hey be nice. This is kind of confusing. Why was it made a .tar.tar? I believe the soloution is to make it a .tar.bz2 file. Anyway use bzip to unzip it. :up:
NakedApe
08-30-2003, 08:28 AM
Originally posted by crayolarx
Hey be nice. This is kind of confusing. Why was it made a .tar.tar? I believe the soloution is to make it a .tar.bz2 file. Anyway use bzip to unzip it. :up:

I have no obligation to be nice to people who are too lazy to search for even such an obvious topic. And I wasn't really nasty, now was I?

The reason it has been made a .tar.tar is Windows braindamage when it sees a file extension it doesn't recognize.

You don't need to rename it. Unix doesn't care about extensions.