Thanks for the reply, I am forced to download it via Netscape. I don't know how Netscape determined binary/ascii. Is there a switch/option to insure binary under Netscape. In the past I've never had problems with normal files called *.gz or *.rpm but for some reason I've trouble with *.GZ. Any ideas? Terry On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, alexm wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Terrance L Eck wrote:
The command: tar -zxvf guilg00.tar.gz
Gives: gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: Child returned status 1
Did you download the file in BINARY or ASCII mode? Downloading in ASCII might cause this problem...
-alexm
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