discuss: problem unzipping howtos
Subject:
Re: problem unzipping howtos
From:
"M. Leo Cooper" ####@####.####
Date:
15 Dec 2001 00:24:04 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112141302190.1590-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Hylton Guthrie wrote:
> I am having problems untarring howtos using :
> tar -xzvf <filename>
I have seen this issue before, and it is not a problem with the tarballs or
with tar or gzip. What happens is that when Netscape downloads tarballs, it
corrupts them unless a certain obscure switch is set.
Try downloading the files with "wget" or "Lynx".
