Re: cannot open tar file.

From: Jeff Liebermann (jeffl_at_comix.santa-cruz.ca.us)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:35:25 -0800

On 27 Feb 2004 11:10:20 -0800, rsol4747@hotmail.com (ron) wrote:

>I copied
>the tarball to the REDHAT 6.0 box and again was able to look at all
>the directories and files just to see if I could open the tarball.

Any chance that Red Hat is compressing (with gzip) the tarball? The
GNU tar command has a built in compress option with might be set to
default as a result of shoving something into the shell environment.
  http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/tar_120.html
Methinks taking a look at the tarball header and contents, to
determine if any compression is involved, might be useful. 

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