Re: [gtk+osx] Fw: bad tar files

[Charles L. <cl...@gh...>]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:56:05 -0800
"Robin Rowe" <ro...@Mo...> wrote:
[...]
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > hey,
> > first i'd like to thank you for the development of gtk-osx, because i 
> > have been looking for something like this for a while. anyhow i went to 
> > download from sourceforge and i downloaded all 3 tar files. all three 
> > of the files don't expand in either of my tar expanders. when i tried 
> > to unpack with terminal it said this does not look like tar archive.  

That error message usually comes from not specifying "z" to tar, as in:

    tar zxf gtk-osx-0.6.tar.gz

(It's possible that the tar expanders got confused if the download program stripped off the ".gz" suffix.)

-- 
Charles Lepple
cl...@gh...