[omniORB] RH 6.1 tar does not like your python tar ball

[Andy]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:24:31 -0700, Fred Cook wrote:

>Hello OmniORB,
>
>We are up grading to omniORB3.  When we try to un tar the python tar
>balls (both py152 and omnipython) RH 6.1 tar complains about these files
>not being tar archives.  WinZip likes them just fine. 

Have you issued the magic "z" for "unzip" to tar? Something like

	tar xzvf py152.tgz

should do the trick. BTW, this only works with GNU tar.

HTH Andreas