On 13/04/06, John McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:29:26 +1000, "Ash Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 13/04/06, steven mestdagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i have trouble reading your tar.gz > > > > > > $ tar tzvf scim.tar.gz > > > gzip: stdin: unrecognized file format > > > > > > > > > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm > > > > > > > > > > Not sure what happened there, I have re-tarred the file. Give this a go > > I think the error was caused by using the 't' flag instead of 'x'. > > -- > > -John
the t switch is correct - t will give you a list of the contents of a tar.gz file.(read tar(1)) the file was incorrectly compressed by me.