I checked on the gzip web site. the user manual overview indicates that tar.Z is supported by the latest gzip utility.
Having found this out. The question remains: why won't gzip finish unpacking this file? Jim Roger Fischer wrote: > 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
