Repairing a .tar.gz file

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:
> What does 'file' think it is?  Do you know how it was damaged?

POSIX tar archive

Does that mean it's just a tar and not zipped? Didn't even think to try 
that.

(heads down, elbows flying)

Yippie. That was it. Just had to leave out the 'z' and tar liked it fine.

Thanks,
Michael

> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
>>I have a .tar.gz file that is reporting "not in gzip format". I even
>>tried WinZip with similar results.
>>
>>Anyone know of a tool that would attempt to repair a gzip file and get
>>out whatever can be had?
>>
>>This archive contains some things I really would prefer not to lose.