Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:56:42 +0100 From: Wouter van Rooij <aentgood@gmail.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar : unrecognized archive format Message-ID: <7603e5d804113003567e9b2824@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7603e5d80411300355684bbf72@mail.gmail.com> References: <BAY17-F42C3567E230C15D96C506FA3BE0@phx.gbl> <20041130002108.GH48369@wantadilla.lemis.com> <7603e5d80411300355684bbf72@mail.gmail.com>
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> Hi, > > I am running on FreeBSD 5.3 and did some ports and packages installation > and everythings works fine. But ... today when i try to untar a *.tar.gz > file I get a " tar : unrecognized archive format " error > I am still able to untar *.tgz files, but no more *.tar.gz ?!? > > Did i do something wrong whitout knowing it ;-) This is a newbie problem I think;-) You have to use the following commands with *.tgz: gunzip filename tar -xvf filename ( which changeded to *.tar ) You have to use the following commands with *.tar.gz: gunzip filename tar -xvf filename ( which changeded to *.tar ) Wouter van Rooij. P.S. You could try googling your problem first. You could also put the file on a page so I could look at it later and see if it's really damaged or even broken
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