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Re: gunzip stops working



On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:43:18AM -0400, Ken Januski wrote:
> 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?

Netscape has "helpfully" gunzipped it for you without stripping the .gz
extension. Rename it and all will be well.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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