You forgot the z flag tar zvxf abi-0.7.5.tar.gz richie On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Arild Hestvik wrote: > > Which tar file should I use--from the /lf/-dir? Something funny with the files: > > [root@vega /root]# tar xvf abi-0.7.5.tar.gz > tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive > tar: Skipping to next file header > tar: Only read 9616 bytes from archive abi-0.7.5.tar.gz > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > [root@vega /root]# >
