On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 03:43, Eric Whitestone wrote: > I've been downloading lots of tar files with ncftp and mozilla (which > im trying to get rid of by downloading netscape), but when i try to untar > /gzip them, it tells me : > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Type "file [filename]" to see what sort of file it is. I guess that the FTP/web client has un-gzipped the file when it saved it. In that case, simply remove the z from the tar options. Ross
