14 Nov
2002
14 Nov
'02
12:06
On Thursday 14 November 2002 12.56, RR wrote:
top of file looks like this
begin 644 www.tar.gz
note the gz
landie@pepino:~/EVANGEL > tar xvf www.tar tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: 382 garbage bytes ignored at end of archive tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
If the file is gzipped you need to use "tar xvzf www.tar" "file www.tar" should tell you what the file is. If the file is gzipped it will respond with something like "gzip compressed data" Anders