unzipping a .gz file

[mike worrell]

hi all,
I have file from a vendor, printer.pkg.gz
I have tried gunzip and uncompress and both say it's not in gunzip format.
Any other commands anyone knows about I can try.
Thanks,
Mike

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

If you got the file using ftp, it was probably corrupted by the ASCII option. Connect to the server again and specify BINARY before getting the file.

[Rick Garland]

'gzip -d ,filename.gz>'
'gzip -d print.pkg.gz'

The above command should work. If it doesn't then the file is corrupted in some way.

[mike worrell]

HI Bill,
I got the same thing , did both ascii and binary .
gunzip: print-drivers-hpux11.pkg.gz: not in gzip format

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

a 'file printer.pkg.gz' could tell you more.

So I also think that's a wrong file transfer, you could try tar or a winzip at a w$ pc.

HTH
Volkmar

[mike worrell]

here is what "file filename"
fifrux01 /u01/lexmark>file print-drivers-hpux11.pkg.gz
print-drivers-hpux11.pkg.gz: tar file

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

so 'tar xvf ' should work!

You can check first with 'tar tvf '

regards
Volkmar

[mike worrell]

did a tar and it worked

[melvyn burnard]

might be worth feeding that back to the 3rd party venodr, and get them to change the file name to filename.tar