From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 11 21:44:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-120-36.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-120-36.rochester.rr.com [66.66.120.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F2A37B403 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 21:44:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by roc-66-66-120-36.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2BCAF901A00; Sun, 12 May 2002 00:43:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 00:43:27 -0400 From: mpd To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uncompress fails Message-ID: <20020512004326.A29566@rochester.rr.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020511232623.032f6460@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020511232623.032f6460@mail.Go2France.com>; from LConrad@Go2France.com on Sat, May 11, 2002 at 11:28:25PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 11:28:25PM -0500, Len Conrad wrote: > # tar -xvzf pop-before-smtp-1.30.tar.gz > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: child returned status 1 > > now what? > > 1.28, 1.29 fail the same way. Are you sure that it's gzipped? Use 'file' to see what kind of file it really is. I've had this problem before, when I use a browser to download a file from a strangely configured server. > > Len > mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message