From: Mark Evans (evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk)
Date: 06/09/92


From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
Subject: Re: My First Segmentation Fault
Date: 9 Jun 1992 07:18:22 GMT

sakaria@vipunen.hut.fi (Sakari Aaltonen) writes:
: I've had a basic Linux 0.96a running on a Toshiba T5100 for a few days now.
: Trying to move on to big things, I downloaded gcc-2.11c.lib.tar.Z, a file
: of about 1.2Mbytes. When I say
:
: tar zxvf gcc-2.11c.lib.tar.Z
:
: Linux says "Segmentation fault" and the file stays as .tar.Z type. There is
: no crash; tar just doesn't its thing.
try using
zcat gcc-2.11c.lib.tar | tar -xvf -

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