From: ikohn AT vertex DOT ucls DOT uchicago DOT edu (Isaac Kohn)
Subject: Re: gunzip
28 Jan 1998 11:50:32 -0800
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To: Kevin Tighe <kt400797 AT oak DOT cats DOT ohiou DOT edu>
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> 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

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