gzip
Edmund Lam
epl at myriad.its.unimelb.edu.au
Sun Apr 22 23:18:01 GMT 2001
Grzegorz Galazka wrote:
>
> Hello,
> You've written on your page that if I have a problem I can report
> to thi address, so here you go:
> after downloading samba-2.2.0.tar.gz from your website I execute tar zxvf
> samba-2.2.0.tar.gz andhere's what I get:
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> What the hell do I do wrong? I't a gzip isn't it?
>
Some versions of tar also do not support gzip with the z parameter.
Try
gzip -cd samba-2.2.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -
instead
Eddie
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