Re: tar question

[Paul Jarc]

Johann Kerdal <address@hidden> wrote:
> The problem is that I am  not root on the host i would like to use it.

That shouldn't be a problem.

> I thought it would not be a problem and I decided to download the file :
>
> ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/sparc/7/tar-1.13.19-sol7-sparc-local.gz

You might have better luck building it from source yourself.  The
latest test version is at
<URL:ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz>.

> I uncompressed the archive on my home directory and, tried to use the tar
> but, I get errors like :
>
>
> ./tar[183]: 1:  not found

This looks like output from /bin/sh.  Is ./tar a shell script?


paul