On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:46 AM, 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 Well, if it is a .tar and not a .tar.gz, you should use "tar -xf". HTH Vitor