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



Make sure that f is the LAST option just before the filename. Try it this
way:

tar zxvf newsletr.tar.gz


On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Albert Hurd wrote:

> 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??
> 
> Albert Hurd
> 
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