From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 21:30:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA11875 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 21:30:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from muc.edu (smtpgate.muc.edu [199.18.33.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA11868 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 21:30:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from skoubygl@muc.edu) Received: from MUC-Message_Server by muc.edu with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 03 Sep 1998 00:29:42 -0400 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 00:29:13 -0400 From: Gregory Skouby To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: .gz file exploded Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had a .gz file in my root directory and I accidentally tried a tar xf on the fine instead of gunzip. Well, the file seemingly exploded and now I have this weird directory listing, : -rwsr-sr-t 1 root wheel 0 Sep 2 23:15 Q??????YQ??????W;?]?wy???=4???? J?????b-??'??]}???26?=U?jV???J?:LOB ???????????`??f?T????????g?????? I apologize for the bad format of this message. I can't seem to be able to get rid of that and was wondering if anybody knew how to get rid of it. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message