gzip

[Roger Hayter]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104230925100.16703-100000 at webster.conprojan.c
om.au>, Grant <grant at conprojan.com.au> writes
>Also, often the file isn't actually gzipped, even though the file name
>says otherwise.
>
>On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Edmund Lam wrote:
>
>> 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
>> 

Have you checked the downloaded file is the right size?  If the download
was interrupted (and some software leaves the remnant under the proper
file name) you will get this or a similar error.


-- 
Roger Hayter