Regarding errors in tar.gz

[subra]

I seem to be having these problems. Wheni try to open most of my tar.gz files, it gives an error. A lot of pages keep saying to download files in Binary and that Netscape does it by default. But i tried doing it and yet i get the message that the file cannot be opened. How do i get around this problem.
thanx

[demian]

I often had problems with corrupted tgz when downloading with mozilla. I mostly use just plain ftp now and it works fine. However, netscape always seemed to work also ... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/confused.gif

[wmHardRock]

How do you open your files? If you want to extract the content, the command is:
tar -zxvf archive.tar.gz

[subra]

Thanx demian
As you say i think i shoudl just use plain FTP. another question , will an FTP client do? or shoud it be plain old command line FTP?

Originally posted by demian:
I often had problems with corrupted tgz when downloading with mozilla. I mostly use just plain ftp now and it works fine. However, netscape always seemed to work also ... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/confused.gif

[subra]

Hi wmHardRock,

I downloaded this program yesterday canned LinZip (I think) which provides a GUI front end to gzip. The other tar.gz's work properly(the ones which cam on the Linux CD) but not the ones i downloaded.

Originally posted by wmHardRock:
How do you open your files? If you want to extract the content, the command is:
tar -zxvf archive.tar.gz

[demian]

Originally posted by subra:
... will an FTP client do? or shoud it be plain old command line FTP?
Either is fine sometimes I prefer guis (when X is up why not use it) often I just type it in. wget btw is also pretty good and a lot of gui downloadmanager are front-ends to wget.
I find DPS-FTP (http://dpsftp.sourceforge.net) quite a nice front-end.

[subra]

thanx a lot. I am downloading it right now and will definitely try it out.

subra

Originally posted by demian:
Originally posted by subra:
... will an FTP client do? or shoud it be plain old command line FTP?
Either is fine sometimes I prefer guis (when X is up why not use it) often I just type it in. wget btw is also pretty good and a lot of gui downloadmanager are front-ends to wget.
I find DPS-FTP (http://dpsftp.sourceforge.net) quite a nice front-end.