Lo, on Tuesday, October 9, Jason Harris did write:
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -xzvf
> tar: option requires an argument -- f
> Try `tar --help' for more information.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -xzvf
> mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.4-installer.tar.gz
>
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gunzip mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.4-installer.tar.gz
>
> gunzip: mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.4-installer.tar.gz: not in gzip format
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
>
Try
file mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.4-installer.tar.gz
and see what it says. My suspicion is that it's a normal tar file that
happens to have a .gz extension.
Did you happen to download this file in Netscape? It tends to decompress
files on the fly without removing the .gz extension.
Richard
