Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 09:05:09 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: rdobbs@fedbbs.org (Captain Jason Beltz) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GZIP Question Message-ID: <199707312335.JAA07763@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970731175741.394B-100000@polaris.usinternet.com> from Captain Jason Beltz at "Jul 31, 97 06:04:11 pm"
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Captain Jason Beltz writes: > To Whom It May Concern; > I appear to be having trouble with GZIP. I retrieved a copy of > Linux's version of Netscape (I am using the compatibility library) and I > am trying to uncompress the archieve (gz extension). GZIP keeps telling > me it's not a GZIP archieve. It's almost certainly right. > What sould I do? First, find out if it's some other kind of file: $ file archive-name If file tells you it's a tar file, then somebody forgot to gzip it, and you can extract with tar. More likely, though, it's a corrupted archive, and you should get it again. > Please let me know if you need further > information on the configuration of my machine past the following > information: > > CPU: Intel Pentium 150 > Memory: 64 MB > Disk1: 6.4GB - approx. 5.1 GB free > OS: FreeBSD 2.2.2RELEASE (installed over FTP through PPP dialup) No, this time the system configuration is not relevant. Greg
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