Keith It was made with tar -czf. You can use tar -xzf thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz to uncompress
-Jake On Thursday, October 18, 2012, Keith Turner wrote: > When I download the the 0.9.0 release off of the web page, it seems > that its a gziped gzip file. I had to do the following to untar it. > > > $ file thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz > thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix > $ gunzip thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz > $ file thrift-0.9.0.tar > thrift-0.9.0.tar: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Thu > Oct 11 21:01:00 2012, max compression > mv thrift-0.9.0.tar thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz > gunzip thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz > $ file thrift-0.9.0.tar > thrift-0.9.0.tar: POSIX tar archive > > Keith >
