Re: Help recovering damaged .tar file

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From: veenu.r.rashid
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 03:30

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>Is there any way to do this?  My .tar.Z file comes up with an
>error halfway through:
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>Directory checksum:  1089 != 27893
>
>or something like this (made up the numbers).  Can I uncompress
>the tar file and fix it somehow?  (I just want to skip the bad
>block or the bad file and read the rest of the files).
>

Actually the problem is while uncompressing the file.  Raw
'uncompress' on the file gives the following messages:

uncompress: corrupt input
memory allocation error: attempt to free or realloc space not in heap
bad zone

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Is there anything anyone can do with this?

>This came up while reading from a bad floppy... the file copies
>but the data is corrupted.  Is there a way to fix the floppy?
>I tried running:
>
>root% fsck /dev/fd0a
>
>
>but this didn't seem to do anything.
>
>
>Please email me with tips, suggestions or a step by step method
>
>
>Thanks,
>Veenu
>
>vrr@cbnewsj.att.com
>

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