On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Anurag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/7/21 Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> tar tvf rhl-sap-en-80.tgz should do it, or rename it to .tar and use Ark >>>> or your favourite GUI archiver to view/extract. >>> >>> >>> Thanks...this worked. >>> since the extension is .tgz I used `tar -xzvf file.tgz', which didn't work. >> >> >> yes. and since ``file file.tgz'' told you it was a POSIX tar arvhive, >> you had to skip the "z" option. >> > > Yeah, I realized that later, I always thought tgz == tar.gz >
Actually .tgz does stand for .tar.gz. There is something wrong with the redhat site. You should inform the webmaster about it. Or, probably your browser or something else on your side gunziping the file on download and not changing the extension. -- Sharninder http://nomadicrider.com/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
