Sounds like you downloaded to a windows machine and explorer or netscape
changed the name... the file should end in tar.gz
try changing the name to end with tar.gz instead of tar.tar
then unzip it first -then- run the tar.
Hope this helps.
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> I have trying to install PHP on my Marist Linux system. I have gone to the PHP web
>site (php.net) and down loaded the source file ---- php-4_0_4pl1_tar.tar. I then
>FTPed the file to my Linux system and ran TAR. TAR informed me that the file was not
>in TAR format. Does anyone have any recommendations?
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