RE: tar Extract to AS/400 IFS -- HELP !!

Are you using the tar command or the pax command? Like pax -r
apache-ant-1.6.2-bin.tar.gz.


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: tar Extract to AS/400 IFS -- HELP !!
> From: "Mike savino" <mikejsavino@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, October 01, 2004 2:14 pm
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> I'm trying to extract apache-ant-1.6.2-bin.tar.gz to our AS/400 (V5R2) so 
> that I can download and use the iText Java-PDF Library 
> (http://www.lowagie.com/iText/).  The problem is I just can't seem to get 
> the tar command to work properly.  There is also an 
> apache-ant-1.6.2-bin.tar.bz2 archive available but I don't know if I'd have 
> any better luck with that.  I'm going to try but I'm not optimistic.
> 
> There's also a .zip file that I've got on my PC.  I could unzip and then FTP 
> to the 400 but for some reason I've got to Push from the PC and the PC 
> version of FTP doesn't seem to let me do recursive directories.  So it's a 
> real pain doing one Directory at a time.  And the way we're setup here I 
> can't map a drive to the 400.
> 
> Any and all ideas are welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
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