* Bruce Marshall (bmarsh@bmarsh.com) [030524 08:53]: ->On Saturday 24 May 2003 11:25 am, Michael Satterwhite wrote: ->> I retrieved the Gatos drivers to allow me to do video capture with my ->> ATI card. one of the files is km-0.2.1.tgz. I *THOUGHT* the .tgz meant ->> that it was a gzipped tar file. So I issued the following: ->> ->> tar -xvzf km-0.2.1.tgz ->> ->> In return I got the following error message: ->> ->> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format ->> tar: Child returned status 1 ->> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors ->> ->> How can I unpack the file. It shouldn't matter at all with tar, but ->> I'm running 8.2 if you think it does. -> ->Either the file is mis-named or it is corrupt. -> Or it was downloaded with Mozilla/Netscape which decompressed the file already. You should do this... file km-0.2.1.tgz I'll bet you it returns that it's just a tar file. In that case just do this " tar -xvf <file> ".. drop the z switch. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.