Netscape DOESN'T decompress anything. just do tar -xvzf guilg00 let's look at that -x (extract) v (verbose) z (gunzip it) f (read from file) also I've never heard of the command gz, try gunzip (file); tar (file)
--dave On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Ashley Clark wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, tf wrote: > > I'm on a roll. In trying to install wordperfect 8, I followed the > > instructions on their site: > > > > gz guilg00.gz;tar guilg00 > > > > And got an error, "not in gzip format". Corrupt download? Hope not. > > Did you download it with netscape? Usually netscape decides to > decompress gz files for me but keeps the gz extension, check if it's > already uncompressed, tar tf guilg00. > > -- > Ashley Clark > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
