"Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote:
>
> what command did you use? sounds like a tar zxvf file.tar
> if the arcgive is not compressed you will get the error you mentioned
> try
> tar zvf file.tar is that failes re-download in binary mode *if ftp'ed)
>
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, HAL 9000 wrote:
>
> > hello.. thanks for the replies about screenshots :o) another question.
> > i just downloaded staroffice 5.1 (i love my t1 connection) and it is in
> > *.tar format. however when i try to untar is, i get the following error
> > (using terminal emulation):
> > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> > tar: Child returned status 1
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> >
> > what am i doing wrong? how can this be corrected? any help is
> > appreciated.
> >
> > seth
> >
> >
> >
thanks.... a friend told me to use -xzf .... xvf worked great!!! thanks
to all who replied
seth
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