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Noems 07-13-2004 06:40 AM

problems with comporessed files
 
hi! i´m having problems when i try to unpack a .tar.gz file

what appears is:

gzip: stdin:not in gzip format

tar: child returned status 1

tar: error exit delayed from previous errors


can someone help me?

thnx

Peacedog 07-13-2004 06:56 AM

from the command line try

tar xzvf filename.tar.gz

good luck.

Noems 07-13-2004 08:50 AM

problem
 
try that already the result was the same

iluvatar 07-13-2004 09:11 AM

do a "file <filename.tar.gz>" (without the quotes ofcourse) to check the real file type. It could just be another file type.

greetz,
.-=~ iluvatar ~=-.


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