On Apr 13, 2000, tony.chen@osborngroup.com wrote:

> I downloaded egcs-20000410.tar.gz.  The file could be decompressed with
> winzip, but tar do not think it is a correct .tar file.

And `tar' is correct: a gzipped tar file is not a correct tar file.
You must gunzip it first, or use the -z option for tar to run gunzip
on it for you.

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