From: ikohn@vertex.ucls.uchicago.edu (Isaac Kohn) Subject: Re: gunzip 28 Jan 1998 11:50:32 -0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Kevin Tighe Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com > 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 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".