in reply to How to handle broken tars ?

Hmm. You might have to watch a file's size and, when it doesn't change between checks of, say, five minutes, assume it's done. That's kinda ugly, but it's the best I can think of before my meeting.

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Re: Re: How to handle broken tars ?
by SpaceCake (Initiate) on May 21, 2004 at 15:49 UTC
    Can I somehow check if it give's me the output at all to tar extract ? and use that one like a check ?