BamBam, Tarballs are collections of files, which may contain
executable files. You might try unpacking the tarball first with:
tar -xzf foo.tar.gz on the console command line.
The "-xzf" options to "tar" does extract, convert from gnuzip,
with disk file as the source.
THEN look for executables.
----- Original Message -----
From: "BamBam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 10:32 PM
Subject: [newbie] Cannot Execute binary file
> When I try to execute .tar.gz and .tgz files from the terminal window, I
get
> a message that says cannot execute binary file
