Thank you very much for your help. Brian's suggestion worked the best so far.
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Brian Lavender <br...@brie.com> wrote: > try > > file filename.tar.gz > > to see what magic it can pick out. > > You can try the following. > > tar xvf filename.tar.gz > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:57:00AM -0700, Anahita Yazdi wrote: > > I have downloaded a package that I need to extract it on my desktop. I > > used terminal command tar zxvf filename.tar.gz to do so, however this > > is the error I keep getting: > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > > tar: Child returned status 1 > > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors > > Would someone be able to help me with this please, > > Thanks so much, > > Anahita > > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > -- > Brian Lavender > http://www.brie.com/brian/ > > "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to > make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other > way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." > > Professor C. A. R. Hoare > The 1980 Turing award lecture > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >
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