Re: gunzip stops working

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

Ken Januski wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've run into an odd problem over the last few months. More than half
> the *gz files I download from Netscape refuse to unzip with gunzip. I
> always get the message XXX is "not in gzip format."
> Running file on XXX gives me "GNU tar archive." Does anyone have any
> idea what might be going on?
> 
I think Netscape is gunzipping transparently, but not changing the file
name.  I'm pretty sure I've seen this as a thread before.

Have you tried just untarring the thing and seeing if it's good?