I have found that sometimes when I download a file with Netscape it names it with a
.tar.gz extention but in fact it unzipped it when it was downloaded. Try renameing it
to whatever it should be named without the .tar.gz I know that appears strange, but it
has actually worked for me sometimes.
John
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 17:17:17 -0500
>Wed, 17 May 2000 16:30:04
>
>I have downloaded eighteen tar.gz files from various sites...some of
>them work without complaint...six of them will not gunzip..
>
> The Archiver tool claims they are of an unknown format...
>
>zcat and midnight commander will not open them...I have tried to open
>them with tar -zxvf (crummy file) tar.gz....no soap.
>
>keep in mind that I am able to do other files ok, so my procedures
>should be adequate,..?.. I downloaded A thirty meg book "Grokking the
>GIMP", it took three hours with my antique phone line hookup,, and the
>file gave the error below...this file is read by other people so I
>cannot believe all these files are bad...
> 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
>Grokking-the-GIMP-v1.0/
>Grokking-the-GIMP-v1.0/Grokking_the_GIMP.html
>tar: Skipping to next file header
>tar: Archive contains `"N U\240\301P\226\203\t\330\026Y"' where
>numeric off_t value expected
>tar: Archive contains `"\362\037`\261\b\264\341\216D\334\023&"' where
>numeric time_t
>value expected
>\022\304\001\025\230[\355\330\245\260\260\313v\266\013_\n\013\242\331I/\274\342F\026\002\024t$\355!U\017.\346z\262g{\332EcrZJ&@\221\321g}\332\347}\342\247}B_\237\345g\177\342'\364\251\303\304\370\347\200\022\350\177\322\b\215\004h\236\361\247\221M\314\202\026\350\203\022\350\304
>tar: Skipping to next file header
>\253\013\273q\326\272\257\353\272\261k\273\221\005n\220{\273\273\213X\257Fo\274\013\274Mgl\234;g\301\333^\201
>tar: Skipping to next file header
>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>==============
>
>can someone offer a theory? anyone? comeon Paul you have an answer
>don't you? <grin>.
>
>thank you kindly for your efforts
>Olly P
>Biloxi
>Mississippi
>
>
