On Thu, 18 May 2000 10:48:58 -0400, Ron wrote:
>I have had the same problem
>if you dwonloaded them with netscape try to
>tar xvf without the z
>this has worked for me in the past
==
Thu, 18 May 2000 20:54:47
Thanks John..Alex...and Ron..for taking the time to help
I ra
On Thu, 18 May 2000 05:47:54 -0400, Alex wrote:
>> [olly@localhost Lintech]$ tar -tf Grokking-the-GIMP-v1_0_tar.gz
>
>Did you download this file under windows?
Thu, 18 May 2000 10:46:04
Yes Alex, I have only a winmodem to access my slow (max 26-4)
connection...I downloaded the
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.
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
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
the
