[arch-general] Error for extract archive .tar

[Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:46 AM, dario <darioslc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! i have a problem for extract an archive .tar, because when write
> "tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz" i get the messenge:
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Well, if it is a .tar and not a .tar.gz, you should use "tar -xf".

HTH
Vitor