Re: HELP: Repair of tar.gz files??

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

>  I dwnloaded   newsletr.tar.gz from the CTAN site. On attempting a tar
>  xvfz, I got:
>  
>  icarus:~/writing/newsletter> tar xvfz  newsletr.tar.gz
>  tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive
>  tar: Skipping to next file header
>  
>  Is there anything I can do to recover the file, or am I out of luck for
>  a Tex newsletter include??

When I use netscape to download a file, it uncompresses it but doesn't
change the name.

So for the heck of it, try:

$  tar xvf  newsletr.tar.gz
-- 
Peter Galbraith, research scientist          <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546
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