[X-Unix] strange tar behavior

[Rod Buchanan]

On 3/20/06 11:14 AM, "Charles Howse" <chowse at charter.net> wrote:

> When I do
> $ tar cvfz bin.tgz bin
> 
> But, when I do
> $ tar --list --verbose --file=bin.tgz
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive

You're missing the corresponding -z option: either --gzip or --gunzip will
work.

-- 
Rod

 "Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari
fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives,  be
somewhere else."
     -- Delenn and Captain Drake in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams"