[vlc] Re: Can't open 'contrib-20030729-win32-bin.tar.tar'

[Bill Eldridge]

It's probably a bzip2 file that the downloader didn't understand
Try "tar -jxf xxx.tar.tar" or "tar -zxf xxx.tar.tar" in case it's regular
zip.


George Bryant wrote:

> Kind VLCers,
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> I am attempting to compile the VLC update that incorporates the SAP 
> listening update.  I can't seem to extract the 
> 'contrib-20030729-win32-bin.tar.tar' file I downloaded with either 
> winzip (can't read file headers) or tar.exe (see error messages below, 
> the j switch is not recognized by tar.exe).  Any help is greatly 
> appreciated.
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> C:\>tar xivf contrib-20030729-win32-bin.tar.tar -C /
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> tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive.
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> tar: Skipping to next file header...
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> tar: only read 7226 bytes from archive contrib-20030729-win32-bin.tar.tar
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> Regards,
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> George Bryant
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