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[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:16:06 EDT
"Matthew S. Sacks" said:


>>	ftp://mud.stack.nl/pub/OuterSpace/willem/
>>
>I have downloaded several .gz files from this site.  gunzip will not 
>unzip any of them.  Yes, I did -d.

Ahm, are you sure?  They all unzip for me just fine.  Are you 
confusing the behavior of gzip/gunzip with that of the Windows 
'unzip' or 'pkunzip', perhaps?

gzip does not extract files from a gzipped file.  It simply 
decompresses the file.  These files are all tar.gz files, which means 
that you must first decompress them, then un-archive them using the 
tar command.  Try this:

	tar -ztvf xmms*.tar.gz

and see if that results in a stream of file names flying by.

Note: 	This command won't un-archive the file either, it simply
	lists the table of contents of the tar archive after passing
	the file through gzip in memory.

To actually un-archive this stuff, try:

	tar -zxvf xmms*.tar.gz

Hope that helps.
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Seeya,
Paul
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