Thank you very much for your help. Brian's suggestion worked the best so far. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Brian Lavender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@brie.com">brian@brie.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">try<br>
<br>
file filename.tar.gz<br>
<br>
to see what magic it can pick out.<br>
<br>
You can try the following.<br>
<br>
tar xvf filename.tar.gz<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:57:00AM -0700, Anahita Yazdi wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> I have downloaded a package that I need to extract it on my desktop. I<br>
> used terminal command tar zxvf filename.tar.gz to do so, however this<br>
> is the error I keep getting:<br>
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format<br>
> tar: Child returned status 1<br>
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors<br>
> Would someone be able to help me with this please,<br>
> Thanks so much,<br>
> Anahita<br>
<br>
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