Re: jar problem

• To: Don Murray <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: jar problem
• From: Jordan Alpert <jalpert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:49:27 -0400

Don;

Thxs for the reply.  Bill mentioned 
>  and your 'jar' command must be at least JDK 1.2.

Apparently the jar command that comes with Redhat 6.2
is not JDK 1.2.  There is not a "which version" option and no
man or info page or HOWTO for this command. Installing the
JDK 1.2 fixed the problem.  

Thanks

Jordan
  


Don Murray wrote:
> 
> Hi Jordan-
> 
> My guess is that it got downloaded in ascii rather than binary mode.
> Did you FTP it directly, or go through the web page?  If directly, try
> again and make sure you are in binary mode.  If through the web page,
> use the shift click, or right click and "Save as" feature.
> 
> Don Murray
> 
> Jordan Alpert wrote:
> >
> > visad list;
> >
> > I am having a problem unpacking the
> > visad.jar file (or the  visad_src-2.0.jar).
> > I am using Intel Pent II 400mhz, linux/RedHat 6.2,
> > and get the following error from jar xvf visad.jar:
> >
> > $ jar xvf visad.jar
> >    created: META-INF/
> > java.io.IOException: LOC header signature bad: 4b500003
> >         at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:38)
> >         at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java:24)
> >         at java.io.IOException.<init>(IOException.java:25)
> >         at
> > java.util.zip.ZipInputStream.getNextEntry(ZipInputStream.java:55)
> >         at kaffe.tools.jar.Jar.extractFilesInJar(Jar.java:700)
> >         at kaffe.tools.jar.Jar.processJar(Jar.java:405)
> >         at kaffe.tools.jar.Jar.start(Jar.java:60)
> >         at kaffe.tools.jar.Jar.main(Jar.java:39)
> >
> > and META-INF/ is empty.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jordan

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