[Flightgear-devel] Problem with modified apt.dat file

2010-01-19 Thread Andrew Gillanders
Hello all, I am having trouble with an updated apt.dat file. I think it is with compressing it. I used the command 'tar cfz apt.dat.gz apt.dat'. Is this correct? When I put the compressed file into FG, but there were problems loading. First, it fell over on line 2 (the version number and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem with modified apt.dat file

2010-01-19 Thread jean pellotier
Andrew Gillanders a écrit : Hello all, I am having trouble with an updated apt.dat file. I think it is with compressing it. I used the command 'tar cfz apt.dat.gz apt.dat'. Is this correct? to me it should be 'gzip apt.dat' BTW, you can put apt.dat uncompressed in FG, fg will load

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem with modified apt.dat file

2010-01-19 Thread Csaba Halász
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Gillanders andrew.gilland...@uqconnect.edu.au wrote: I am having trouble with an updated apt.dat file. I think it is with compressing it. I used the command 'tar cfz apt.dat.gz apt.dat'. Is this correct? Nope, you don't want to tar it, just gzip. --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem with modified apt.dat file

2010-01-19 Thread Jari Häkkinen
Judging from the extension .gz the command to use is gzip not tar. For compressed tar I'd expect extension .tgz or .tar.gz. Try 'gzip apt.dat' instead. Jari On 1/19/10 11:51 AM, Andrew Gillanders wrote: Hello all, I am having trouble with an updated apt.dat file. I think it is with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem with modified apt.dat file

2010-01-19 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 19.01.2010 um 13:22 schrieb jean pellotier: Andrew Gillanders a écrit : Hello all, I am having trouble with an updated apt.dat file. I think it is with compressing it. I used the command 'tar cfz apt.dat.gz apt.dat'. Is this correct? to me it should be 'gzip apt.dat' BTW,