At 8:21 AM -0500 6/14/02, James Beckett wrote: >I tried that. I error out at the same point: gzip: stdin: not in >gzip format and tar fails. > >Note that Stephano reported the same error. tar would not unpack the file. > >"tar -xvzf /sw/src/nedit-5.2RC1-src.tar.Z > >gzip: stdin: not in gzip format >tar: Child returned status 1 >tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors >### tar failed, exit code 2 "
The error is in the top line "gzip: stdin: not in gzip format". .Z is unix compress, not gzip. Try using uncompress and then untar the file. % uncompress /sw/src/nedit-5.2RC1-src.tar.Z % tar -xvf /sw/src/nedit-5.2RC1-src.tar _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
