Alternative to GAIM

[William Park]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:17:22AM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> > Question:
> >
> > > Does this mean it's not really a tar.gz?
> >
> > Answer:
> >
> > > [root at p166 amsnfls]# file amsn-0_83.tar.gz
> > > amsn-0_83.tar.gz: HTML document text
> 
> Point taken. So, how do you untar/unzip and rpm -i a file that
> may not be a tar, gzip or, for that matter, an rpm?

Most likely, 'file' is correct; that is, it is .html file which was
saved as .tar.gz.  You can't untar/unzip a HTML file, because HTML is
not tar/zip archive.

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