Re: [newbie] High failure rate tar.gz

[Alex V Flinsch]

On Wed, 17 May 2000, you wrote:

>       what could I do to recover this file ? can I change some
> coding with a hex editor or something and make them decode? take a
> look at the file fragment below I obtained, using the tar test (first
> line below).
> =========
> [olly@localhost Lintech]$ tar -tf Grokking-the-GIMP-v1_0_tar.gz

Did you download this file under windows? 

-- 
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)