Greetings, On 23-Sep-97 Charles Krinke wrote: >I have the 'amaya-src-1_1a_tar.gz file' (14mbytes). I then downloaded a >copy of 'gzip.exe' from a gnu archive (116K, 20 Aug 1993) and invoked it >in the same subdirectory as the .gz file as 'gzip -d -N >amaya-src-1_1a_tar.gz' and what I got was a single file 33mbytes in >size, it does appear to have source code in it, but it is all one file. >What am I doing wrong? Please help me understand the procedure to >uncompress this .gz file so I can get started understanding amaya. > The .tar.gz extension indicates that the file is both tarred and gzipped, so you need tar as well. With GNU tar, you can do % tar xvzf foobar.tar.gz without uncompressing it first. With conventional tars, do % gzip -d foobar.tar.gz % tar xvf foobar.tar HTH, Sami. ======================================================= Sami Lempinen * ssl@sci.fi http://www.sci.fi/~ssl/ * http://www.snowman.sci.fi/ * Incoming mail filtered using NoCeM-E * "Friends don't su(1) friends."Received on Tuesday, 23 September 1997 04:52:04 GMT
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