I was originally wondering if there was a problem with gzip. The TRUE PROBLEM is that I was doing "xxxx update" from either version 0.4.0 or 0.3.2a.
These versions no longer find the right files, although the titles appear okay. Because they did not find the right files, the gzip file was actually corrupt and so tar or any other tool would fail. tar is doing the right things. gzip is doing the right things. also as one other post pointed out, tar handles .Z files also. My other lesson is that to get to fink 0.4.0a (from 0.4.0 or 0.3.2a) you have to do fink selfupdate-cvs. and cvs is a command in the develop tools. Since I don't want to bother with downloading and setting up the tools at the moment, I can't update to fink 0.4.0a. However dselect is doing fine for me in either 0.3.2a or 0.4.0 (different machines) Jim Lloyd D Budd wrote: >on 2002/06/16 13:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: > > > >>When you run "tar -xzf" tar expects a gzip format file and does the >>unzip itself. I don't think it actually executes the gzip command. >> >> > >Am I missing something here? Trivial testing shows that 'tar -xzf...' is >successful @ extracting from compressed files. > >I renamed both uncompress, and gunzip, and it continued to be successful. >Interestingly, on good confidence I have been told that GNU tar does simply >call the 'gunzip' utility -- at least for 'tar.gz' > >Cheers, >Lloyd > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy > >>> http://thinkgeek.com/sf <<< > >_______________________________________________ >Fink-beginners mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy >>> http://thinkgeek.com/sf <<< _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
