Re: un-tar'ing not working for me

Thank you all for your prompt replies. Boyle Owen wrote: Plain text please... Obvious error? It's not a tar file. It's a gzipped tar file. The simplest way to unpack is to: gzip -dc openssl-0.9.7c.tar.gz | tar xvf - Alternatively; gunzip openssl-0.9.7c.tar.gz tar xvf openssl-0.9.7c.tar Rgds, Owe

RE: un-tar'ing not working for me

John S. Wolter wrote: > > I downloaded > 2791797 Sep 30 14:50:15 2003 openssl-0.9.7c.tar.gz [LATEST] ... > but when I use tar to list the files [...] > I get an error message [...] > I'm running SUSE 8.1 on this particular machine. To list the contents: tar ztvf openssl-0.9.7c.tar.gz To extr

Re: un-tar'ing not working for me

John S. Wolter schrieb: I downloaded 2791797 Sep 30 14:50:15 2003 openssl-0.9.7c.tar.gz *[LATEST] ... *but when I use tar to list the files by entering tar --list --file=openssl-0.9.7c.tar.gz.tar I get an error message that states..

RE: un-tar'ing not working for me

Plain text please... Obvious error? It's not a tar file. It's a gzipped tar file. The simplest way to unpack is to: gzip -dc openssl-0.9.7c.tar.gz | tar xvf - Alternatively; gunzip openssl-0.9.7c.tar.gz tar xvf openssl-0.9.7c.tar Rgds, Owen Boyle Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this mes

RE: un-tar'ing not working for me

-Original Message- From: John S. Wolter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 January 2004 13:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: un-tar'ing not working for me [snip] >What obvious error I'm I making using tar? It's a gzipped tar file. I would use this to extract the contents: tar -zxvf open

Re: un-tar'ing not working for me

The file is gzipped. You'll need to either ungzip it before using tar or use a command like `tar zxvf openssl-0.9.7c.tar.gz.tar` if your tar understands compression. Tar is a old command so options can be specified many different ways. I generally leave out the '-' since it doesn't care. 'z