ziped tarball .tgz

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Wed Sep 8 16:18:43 UTC 2004


On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, littleguru wrote:

> here is the error message i get when I want to do tar command :
> # tar -zxvf blaxton.ca-20040908_103234.tar.tgz

the fact that that file has both a "tar" and "tgz" suffix suggests 
that you downloaded it thru a client that automatically tacked on an 
extra (unneeded) suffix.

you might just have to rename the file to just have either the "tar" 
or "tgz" suffix, and try again.

rday





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