On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:46 PM, dario <darioslc@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > > i have installed tar and gzip, and would install 7zip, but i can't. > What is the problem? > Thank you very much > > -- > Dario > > PD: sorry my english, your understanding > > What's the output of "file archive.tar.gz" ?