Re: Please tell me this is curable...

[William T Wilson <fluffy@snurgle.org>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Patrick wrote:

> Now its not working as when I ftp the data in from NT, I get this:
> 
> atrick@enterprise:~$ tar xzvf datstore
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header

Maybe you transferred it in ASCII mode.  Hopefully you didn't transfer it
in ASCII mode when you sent it to the NT box because then you'll never get
it back.  If you did it in ASCII mode sending it back to the Linux system
then you must simply resend it in binary.

> There's several thousand important files at stake here...can anyone
> tell me how to recover them?

>From tape? :}