[TYPO3] Problems untarring typo3_src-4.0.tar.gz - archive corrupt?

[Bee Choo Tee]

Thanks Krystian and Timm.

Have used 7zip. No error messages this time. :-)

Can't FTP symlinks though. :-(

Regards,

BeeChoo

Sauerborn, Timm wrote:
Hi.

I often had trouble with extracting tar-files using WinRAR.
Maybe try to use WinZIP or Win32-tar [1]

Just a guess, though...

Regards, Timm

[1] http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/tar.htm



> Krystian Szymukowicz wrote:
>
> hello
> >
> > I've just downloaded typo3_src-4.0.tar.gz and unpacked that using
> > 7zip.org. Everything works perfectly.
> >
> > So it must be your system/winrar/etc that causes the problem.
> >
> > Maybe something makes the downloaded data corrupted. Some months ago I
> > had nvidia nforce4 firewall (built in on motherboard) that causes data
> > corruption. After turning it off no more troubles.
> >
> >
> > --
> > grtz
> > Krystian
> >
> > Bee Choo Tee wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I'm a newbee to Typo3. Have downloaded v4.0 tar.gz file and getting
> error
> > messages when untarring to C: drive using Winrar. My web host does not
> > allow
> > telnet and ssh, so I need to untar them on my computer before uploading
> the
> > files. My web site runs on Linux and my local computer is Win 2K.
> >
> > I have downlaoded the tar.gz file from a few different sourceforge links
> > and
> > keep getting the same error message during untarring. Is the file really
> > corrupt or am I doing something wrong?
> >

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