[plug] tarballs

[J Michael Gilks]

On Sunday 23 October 2005 06:46, Alex Polglaze wrote:
>
> To uncompress this file, the command that I should issue is;
>
> tar -xvjf thunderbird-1.0.7.tar.gz
>
> Is this correct?
>
Under normal circumstances this is correct, however I recently came across 
some tar.gz files which would not extract with the -v option.
No idea why, but I must admit the instructions did say to extract using
tar xjf and that did work.
So give it a try without the -v and it may work.
Hope this helps.

Love
Mike.