Re: HELP: Repair of tar.gz files??
Thats wrong. The four letter contains only one option with an additional
paramter (the filename). I bet Albert had only forgotten to switch in
binary mode before download.
-Egon
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote:
>
> 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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> George Bonser
>
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