tar : unrecognized archive format

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 29 16:21:13 PST 2004


On Monday, 29 November 2004 at 19:04:12 -0500, Christ The_worm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running on FreeBSD 5.3 and did some ports and packages installation
> and everythings works fine. But ... today when i try to untar a *.tar.gz
> file I get a " tar : unrecognized archive format " error
> I am still able to untar *.tgz files, but no more *.tar.gz ?!?
>
> Did i do something wrong whitout knowing it ;-)

Well, you posted to -newbies instead of -questions.  But there's an
easy solution which you can find out there :-)

Greg
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