[vox-tech] Problem with extracting in terminal

[Brian Lavender]

try 

file filename.tar.gz

to see what magic it can pick out.

You can try the following.

tar xvf filename.tar.gz

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:57:00AM -0700, Anahita Yazdi wrote:
>    I have downloaded a package that I need to extract it on my desktop. I
>    used terminal command tar zxvf filename.tar.gz to do so, however this
>    is the error I keep getting:
>    gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
>    tar: Child returned status 1
>    tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>    Would someone be able to help me with this please,
>    Thanks so much,
>    Anahita

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