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
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
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.
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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
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,
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