[ale] TAR Problems

[hirsch at zapmedia.com (hirsch at zapmedia.com)]

SAngell at nan.net writes:
 > 
 > 
 > I am trying to extract a tarball and am using the norm of tar zxvf on a tar.gz
 > file. I have tried several different files but always end up with the same
 > errors:
 > 
 > gzip: stdin: Invalid compressed data--format violated
 > tar: Child returned status 1
 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

What does file say?  Is it really compressed?

# file tarfile.tar.gz

--MIchael
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