Re: Unidentified subject!

["Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <scoile redhat com>]

On Fri, 21 May 1999, Stephen Lavelle wrote:
> I have downloaded several ethemes to try but when i try to tar xvf them i
> get the messages:
> tar: Hmm this doesnt look like a tar archive
> tar: skipping to next file header
> tar: only read xxxx bytes from archive *e.etheme
> tar: Error is not recoverable. exiting now
> I have even tried to rename the files as tar.gz still to no avail. any
> advice offered would be good

Looks like you downloaded the file in ASCII mode.  Try downloading it
again, making sure you use binary mode.

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