Re: TAR.GZ

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On  1 Jul, Cuno Sonnemans wrote about "TAR.GZ"
> Hi,
> 
> I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module).
> Now I want to try to extract it.
> I've tried, tar -xzvf .............., and gunzip ................ .
> In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format.
> How is this possible and what is the way to extract GUILGNL0.GZ !!!
> 

Try using the 'file' program to identify it.  If it is a gz file you
should get something like,

% file GUILGNL0.GZ
GUILGNL0.GZ: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Sun Apr 11 00:20:57 1999, max compression, os: Unix

If it is a tar,

% file GUILGNL0.GZ
GUILGNL0.GZ: GNU tar archive

Perhaps the file got uncompressed when you downloaded it but the file
extension was left on. Or if you ftp'd it did you use binary mode?  If
ftp was not in binary mode during the download and instead in ascii mode
then the file is destroyed and you will have to get it again.

-- 
Brian 
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