use gunzip to uncompress gz files.
tar --gunzip -xvf file.tar.gz often works as well (with gnu tar at
least)
also: use file file.tar.gz to figure out what file you have.
erik
"Paul D. Smith" wrote:
>
> %% Farhad Jalilvand <Farhad.Jalilvand_at_sharewave.com> writes:
>
> fj> I have downloaded the fvwm installation tar file (
> fj> fvwm-2.2.2.tar.gz) to my home directory but I am unable to
> fj> uncompress the file. Here is what I get on unix prompt:
>
> fj> fjalilva_at_olive:/home/fjalilva:( 31 )%zcat fvwm-2.2.2.tar.gz
> fj> fvwm-2.2.2.tar.gz.Z: No such file or directory
>
> fj> What utility do I use to uncompress the downloaded file?
>
> Some browsers "helpfully" decompress the file for you when they download
> it. Of course they don't change the name when they do this *sigh*.
>
> That file is likely already uncompressed. Rename it to just
> fvwm-2.2.2.tar, then extract it with tar.
>
> As someone else mentioned, the latest stable version of FVWM is 2.2.4,
> available from http://www.fvwm.org/
>
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Received on Tue Jul 25 2000 - 16:22:08 BST