ziped tarball .tgz

littleguru littleguru at sympatico.ca
Wed Sep 8 16:47:49 UTC 2004


here is the out put of file blaxton.ca-20040908_103234.tar.tgz
blaxton.ca-20040908_103234.tar.tgz: data

thanks James

James Wilkinson wrote:

>littleguru wrote:
>  
>
>>here is the error message i get when I want to do tar command :
>># tar -zxvf blaxton.ca-20040908_103234.tar.tgz
>>
>>gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
>>tar: Child returned status 1
>>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>>
>>gzip also can not understand the file , here is the error message :
>>gzip: blaxton.ca-20040908_103234.tar.tgz already has .tgz suffix -- 
>>unchanged
>>    
>>
>
>Please run file on the file...
>file  blaxton.ca-20040908_103234.tar.tgz
>and post the results back.
>
>At this point, it isn't obvious what the file is.
>
>It could, for example, be an uncompressed tar file, in which case
>tar xf blaxton.ca-20040908_103234.tar.tgz
>should untar it.
>
>HTH,
>
>James.
>  
>






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