From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 21:46:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 344A415C07 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 21:45:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from TurnAround.com.au (dhcp64.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.64]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA16973; Wed, 12 May 1999 14:57:19 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Message-ID: <3739078C.590CFEAE@TurnAround.com.au> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:46:04 +1000 From: Andrew Johns Organization: TurnAround Solutions P/L X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: brian@visionpro.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Corrupt tar.gz ... References: <3738FDE0.EFBB73A2@visionpro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are you *really* sure that it is a compressed file? I've had files with the .tar.gz extension that were actually just plain vanilla tar files...as well as .tar files that were actually tar.gz files - do a 'file your_file.tar.gz' to see what it thinks it is. Other than that, it's also possible that the file was ftp'ed in ASCII mode instead of binary mode, in which case you may as well rm -f it... HTH -- Regards | _/\_/\ Andrew Johns BSc (Comp Sci) | / \ TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd | \_...__/ http://www.turnaround.com.au/ | \/ "The box said 'Requires Windows 98, NT, Linux or better' so I installed FreeBSD." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message