santosh dubey said on Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 09:57:03AM -0700,:

 > incomplete literal tree.
 > gzip:stdin:invalid compressed data -- format violated
 > tar:child returned status 1
 > tar: error exit delayed from previous errors.

What command are you using?
 
Why should gzip complain when you run tar?

If it is a gzipped tarball, try tar -zxvf filetoopen
 

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