If I understand correctly... Even though the gzip utility understands tar.Z, it doesn't meant the tar understands .Z.
When you run "tar -xzf" tar expects a gzip format file and does the unzip itself. I don't think it actually executes the gzip command. "tar -xzf" is not equal to "gunzip -c file.Z | tar -xf -" At 9:05 AM -0500 6/15/02, James Beckett wrote: >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 _______________________________________________________________ Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
