On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 08:13:16PM +0200, sfantar wrote: > > > > I use tar (tar -cvvf) to compress this archive. It's not a file, it's an > archive .tar.gz. if, as you claim, you used 'tar -cvvf' to make the archive then its not gzip'ed and doesn't need the -z flag to untar it, despite how its named. to make a true .tgz or .tar.gz archive you would use 'tar -cvzf'. note the 'z' needed to 'z'ip the archive. to untar it just do 'tar -cvf <some archive>'
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