On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: > I dwnloaded newsletr.tar.gz from the CTAN site. On attempting a tar > xvfz, I got: > icarus:~/writing/newsletter> tar xvfz newsletr.tar.gz > tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive > tar: Skipping to next file header > Is there anything I can do to recover the file, or am I out of luck for > a Tex newsletter include??
Albert: The one thing you can try is zcat newsletr.tar.gz | tar vx This will unpack as far as the error. I don't know what else you might do from that point. Can you download this again? I hope someone else has an answer for that. --David --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINUX: because I want to get there *TODAY* (thanks Shaleh) David B Teague | Ask me how user interface copyrights & software patents [EMAIL PROTECTED] | make programming a dangerous business.