what command did you use? sounds like a tar zxvf file.tar
if the arcgive is not compressed you will get the error you mentioned
try
tar zvf file.tar is that failes re-download in binary mode *if ftp'ed)
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, HAL 9000 wrote:
> hello.. thanks for the replies about screenshots :o) another question.
> i just downloaded staroffice 5.1 (i love my t1 connection) and it is in
> *.tar format. however when i try to untar is, i get the following error
> (using terminal emulation):
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> what am i doing wrong? how can this be corrected? any help is
> appreciated.
>
> seth
>
>
>
