> I have an old CentOS system, so I copied an existing gzipped tarball from it > to my Cygwin and had no difficulties exploding that file. It had extension > '.tgz'. Copied it to '.tar.gz' and still had no issue with it. > > What version of RedHat are you using, and what command(s) created the > compressed tarball you're having difficulty with? > > If you run the 'file' command on the tarball file, what does 'file' say it > contains? > > rake-0.8.4.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, last modified: Wed Mar 4 07:31:25 > 2009, from Unix > > Note that some flavors of tar don't have a very powerful compression library, > and some don't have one at all. For those old ones you may be forced to use > gunzip to get the tarball into a form the old tar understands. (My ancient > CentOS box has it, though.)
I agree with you Joi. Tar relies on content of file not extension. Murthy, tell us what file yourfile.tar.gz does say ? -- CHUNKZ.NET - script kiddie and computer technician Bertrand Caplet, Flers (FR) Feel free to send encrypted/signed messages Key ID: 37F70C30 GPG FP: 134A 4027 518B 5F4D D409 558D BA9B 7BF0 37F7 0C30
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