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Re: Tar's won't untar ever now in potatoe



On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 03:43, Eric Whitestone wrote:
> 	I've been downloading lots of tar files with ncftp and mozilla (which im trying to get rid of by downloading netscape), but when i try to untar /gzip them, it tells me : 
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Type "file [filename]" to see what sort of file it is.  I guess that the
FTP/web client has un-gzipped the file when it saved it.  In that case,
simply remove the z from the tar options.

Ross




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