Thats wrong. The four letter contains only one option with an additional paramter (the filename). I bet Albert had only forgotten to switch in binary mode before download.
-Egon On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > Make sure that f is the LAST option just before the filename. Try it this > way: > > tar zxvf newsletr.tar.gz > > > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: > > > I dwnloaded newsletr.tar.gz from the CTAN site. On attempting a tar > > xvfz, I got: > > > > icarus:~/writing/newsletter> tar xvfz newsletr.tar.gz > > tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive > > tar: Skipping to next file header > > > > Is there anything I can do to recover the file, or am I out of luck for > > a Tex newsletter include?? > > > > Albert Hurd > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > George Bonser > > The Linux "We're never going out of business" sale at an FTP site near you! > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
