- From: Sami Lempinen <ssl@sci.fi>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 11:52:24 +0300 (EET DST)
- To: cfk@pacbell.net
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
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.
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