On 18 February 2005 at 22:14,
[hidden email] wrote:
| For some reason after downloading the QuantLib-0.3.8.tar.gz file, I am not
| able to gzip -d it. I've used winzip win-GZ, gzip, 7-zip, and nothing seems
| to recognize the file compression method. Additionally I've sent the file
| over to a linux box and decompressed it with gzip and an error occurred that
| stated the file had an unrecognizable format. How should I decompress the
| file so that I can untar and install it?
The browser may have uncompressed it so it could now be a tarfile -- but then
didn't rename it. Under Linux, try
$ file QuantLib-0.3.8.tar.gz
which compares the header against a little database. It should tell whether
it is compressed with gzip or not, and/or if it is a tar archive.
Alternatively, just try to look inside via 'tar tvf QuantLib-0.3.8.tar.gz' or
by pointing WinZip at it.
You may have to 'right-mouse click' and select 'save link' to get a binary
download.
Dirk
--
Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise
answer to the wrong question. -- John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers
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