on Sun, Jun 02, 2002, Paul Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > >I am trying to gunzip and unshar the utility "textogif" from > >http://www.fourmilab.com/webtools/textogif/textogif.html > >but no luck so far, gzip is refusing to unzip, saying didn't recognize the > >format. > >Any one knows what the problem is? If any one has the utility (perl script) > >already unpacked, please forward it to me. > >Thanks, > >Tony. > > Sometimes downloads get unzipped without your knowledge and without > changing the file name. Try renaming the file to textogif.shar and > proceeding.
Better:
$ file textogif.shar.gz
...and see what it tells you about contents. You can also 'cat' the
file. A shar is a text file with special headers. A gzip file is
mostly binary data.
Peace.
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