On 12/18/2009 11:19 PM, fedora-list-request@redhat.com wrote:
Subject:
Re: Tar oddity...
From:
José Matos <jaomatos@gmail.com>
Date:
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:46:56 +0000
To:
fedora-list@redhat.com

On Friday 18 December 2009 20:11:00 DB wrote:
  
> Thanks Rick,
> 
> I've been doing
> tar tvf F11*.gz on both machines.  Works on the F11 desktop, not on the 
> F12 Lappy.
> 
> Your tvfz suggestion stops in the same place. :-(
> 
> ??????
> 
> Dave
    
What does "file xxxx.tar.gz" says about it?

  
Hi Jose

On the F11 Desktop:

file F11*.gz
F11_***** 20091217.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Thu Dec 17 14:24:22 2009

Exactly the same on the F12 Laptop.....

Thanks

Dave