Re: word not so perfect
Netscape DOESN'T decompress anything.
just do tar -xvzf guilg00
let's look at that
-x (extract) v (verbose) z (gunzip it) f (read from file)
also I've never heard of the command gz, try gunzip (file); tar (file)
--dave
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Ashley Clark wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, tf wrote:
> > I'm on a roll. In trying to install wordperfect 8, I followed the
> > instructions on their site:
> >
> > gz guilg00.gz;tar guilg00
> >
> > And got an error, "not in gzip format". Corrupt download? Hope not.
>
> Did you download it with netscape? Usually netscape decides to
> decompress gz files for me but keeps the gz extension, check if it's
> already uncompressed, tar tf guilg00.
>
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