Try using uncompress.
Uncompress myfile
Tar myfile
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> On Jan 17, 2017, at 4:40 PM, Dan Norton [via Smalltalk]
> <ml-node+s1294792n4929810...@n4.nabble.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to help someone many miles away install CogSpur on a mac. I run
> Linux as a newb.
>
> On the mac they have run:
>
>
> $ curl -L -o CogSpur.tgz
> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/download/201608171728/cog_macos32x86_squeak.cog.spur_201608171728.tar.gz
>
> But when they try to unzip:
>
>
> $ tar -zxvf CogSpur.tgz
>
> tar: Unrecognized archive format
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
>
> Thanks.
> - Dan
>
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