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Re: gunzip
- To: Kevin Tighe <kt400797 at oak dot cats dot ohiou dot edu>
- Subject: Re: gunzip
- From: Isaac Kohn <ikohn at vertex dot ucls dot uchicago dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 08:22:08 -0600 (CST)
- cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
> I tried to gunzip emacs and I got a non-stop flow of garbage in the
> window. Does anyone know what caused this?
>
> this is the command I entered in bash: "gunzip -c -d emacs_tar.gz"
try
gunzip -c -d emacs_tar.gz | tar xf -
the reason you saw the garbage is that gunzip was unzipping to stdout (the
display). the file that would result from
gunzip -c -d emacs_tar.gz > filename
would be a tarfile, hence the command above.
regards,
isaac
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