I just saved a cgi ftp client to disk and tried uploading it to the cgi directory of my website. It's in a .tar file, and I chose to decompress/view it (I forgot what its called in the menu), but I got this message:

Web-FTP-1.3.3.tar
File Type: gzip compressed data, deflated, original filename, last modified: Fri Aug 4 10:33:33 2000, max compression, os: Unix

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: 363 garbage bytes ignored at end of archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

What do I do about this? Should I just look for a different cgi ftp client in a regular .pl or .cgi file?

You can normally open a tarball in winzip or winace, just extract it, and upload it..

If you have shell access, you can also upload it and run the command:

' tar -xvf Web-FTP-1.3.3.tar '

normally you'll see this when you try to untar a file that is in a gzip state. Sometimes you can just run gzip or gunzip on the file, sometimes you have to rename it with a .tgz extension.

if you dont have a unix shell account, let me know and I'll help you straighten out. just drop me an email at valkaryn@valkaryn.net.

I haven't figured out the shell stuff yet, but I found FileMan which lets me upload files and more without FTP, and it's only zipped. I'll probably try unzipping it on telnet tomorrow. I wish the server would take care of this stuff automatically and let me run or view these programs without all this trouble. I miss my Commodore 64.

Either Digital Zones customer service is monitoring my messages here and trying to help me, or there was a delay in my extracted files showing up in the directory. I was expecting to see them instead of that message I posted here and thought there was something wrong, but everything seems ok now.