well, with gnu tar, the command is actually tar -zxvf postgresql-7.2.tar.gz
with the '-' and the 'v' optional The 'z' tells tar that the file is compressed. Best regards, Chris At 09:57 -0800 02/07/2002, Phill Kenoyer wrote: >Try: tar xfz postgresql-7.2.tar.gz >or: tar xf postgresql-7.2.tar.gz > >If you use Netscape to download it, it is already un-gziped. > >If both of the commands above do not work, then you may need to >re-download it. > >|On 020207 09:52 >|Simone Tellini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote the following... >| >|Hi there, >| >|I've just downloaded the sources tarball from >http://www.postgresql.org/ftpsite/v7.2/postgresql-7.2.tar.gz >|but I can't unpack it: >| >|postgresql-7.2/configure.in >|gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error >| >|is the file on the server corrupt or should I try to download it again? >-- >BOFH Reason of the day: halon system went off and killed the operators. > _ | _ > (_()(|('.|)('||.|()|`|( > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > >http://archives.postgresql.org -- Chris Ruprecht Network grunt and bit pusher extraordinaíre _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
