Ok, whenever I try to gunzip the file it says error 'unexpected end of file'? I ran the file "----" command and it says its a standard gzip file?, any more ideas? I have tried with both of the files available formt the ftp page. thanks again,
ROry.
Some browsers do an on-the-fly decompression of *.gz files. Check if that has happend with the "file" command under linux:
--- shell commands --- $ file plugin~-0.2.tar.gz plugin~-0.2.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Thu Apr 5 07:59:27 2001, max compression, os: Unix
$ gunzip plugin~-0.2.tar.gz
$ file plugin~-0.2.tar
plugin~-0.2.tar: tar archive
--- shell commands end ---
If you have a tar archive called plugin~-0.2.tar.gz, that in fact isn't compressed, you will get this error if you try to unpack it with tar's z-option:
--- shell commands --- $ mv plugin~-0.2.tar plugin~-0.2.tar.gz $ tar tzvf plugin~-0.2.tar.gz
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors --- shell commands end ---
But tar without "z" should work then:
--- shell commands --- $ tar tvf plugin~-0.2.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 10552/10552 14274 2001-04-05 07:59:24 plugin~-0.2/Makefile.in -rw-r--r-- 10552/10552 6409 2001-04-05 07:56:18 plugin~-0.2/README -rw-r--r-- 10552/10552 32 2001-03-05 22:12:36 plugin~-0.2/AUTHORS [...] --- shell commands end ---
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