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Article #1621Re: Files with .tgz extension?
From: Charles Haynes
Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 00:00
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In article <dhassell-0205960813540001@m055-446-a-d1.tc.tufts.edu>,
David Hassell <dhassell@diamond.tufts.edu> wrote:
>As someone once helped me, here's the deal:
>dfork -i <file>.tgz
>zcat <file>.tgz | tar -xvf -
dfork? That's a new one to me. What's it do, return the data fork of a
flattened Mac file?
In any case, two points:
1) did you ftp this file to best? Did you make sure to do it in
binary mode?
2) you don't need the explicit gzip step. for a tar that supports
it (like gnutar) just do tar xvzf file.tgz The tar on best
supports the -z option.
-- Charles
>In article <4m9j9u$dem@shellx.best.com>, jnw@shellx.best.com (JNW
>International) wrote:
>
>>In article <4m9h2j$o7t@shellx.best.com>, thug <thug@shellx.best.com> wrote:
>>>In article <4m9f7l$829@shellx.best.com>,
>>>JNW International <jnw@shellx.best.com> wrote:
>>>>I tried using gzip -d to decompress them but failed. Does anyone
>>>>know how to decompress them? They are supposed to be gzipped tar
>>>>image files? TIA...
>>>
>>>Try...
>>> cat file.tgz| gzip -d| tar xvf -
>>
>>Unfortunately it doesn't work. Same error message: it's not in gzip
>>format.
>
>--
>David Hassell dhassell@emerald.tufts.edu
>Tufts Varsity Crew @diamond.tufts.edu
>Residential Computer Consultant, @cs.tufts.edu
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