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Re: gunzip
- To: Isaac Kohn <ikohn at vertex dot ucls dot uchicago dot edu>
- Subject: Re: gunzip
- From: Kevin Tighe <kt400797 at oak dot cats dot ohiou dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 15:32:45 -0500 (EST)
- cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
Thanks for your help. I'm not used to gnu tools (obviously).
Kevin Tighe
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Isaac Kohn wrote:
> > 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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