[vox-tech] Problem with extracting in terminal

[Anahita Yazdi]

Thank you very much for your help. Brian's suggestion worked the best so
far.

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Brian Lavender <brian at brie.com> wrote:

> 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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> make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
> way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
>
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