On Wed, Aug 10, 2011, Brett wrote: > Hi, > > Occasionally when I download a file with gz extension, it fails to > extract when I run: "gunzip filename". > > eg I just downloaded a compressed gz document about "make": > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/lite2-docs/psd/12.make.ps.gz > > $ gunzip 12.make.ps.gz > gunzip: 12.make.ps.gz: unrecognized file format
First thing to do is make sure your compressed file is really compressed. If I download that file with ftp I can decompress it just fine.
