From unknown Sun Jun 15 08:36:43 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#18000 <18000@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#18000 <18000@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: tar/gzip recognise ZIP mistake Reply-To: bug#18000 <18000@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:36:43 +0000 retitle 18000 tar/gzip recognise ZIP mistake reassign 18000 gzip submitter 18000 Jonny Grant severity 18000 wishlist thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Fri Jul 11 14:06:52 2014 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Jul 2014 18:06:52 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53728 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X5fDb-0000ml-OV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:06:52 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49770) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X5em0-0008K7-MP for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:38:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5elu-0008I4-HV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:38:11 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,FREEMAIL_FROM, T_DKIM_INVALID autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]:33826) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5elk-0008H8-LA for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:38:10 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51428) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5elj-0004ws-7V for bug-gzip@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:38:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5eli-0008Fu-C9 for bug-gzip@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:37:59 -0400 Received: from mail-qc0-x22b.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c01::22b]:55881) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5elW-0008EW-Hw for bug-gzip@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:37:58 -0400 Received: by mail-qc0-f171.google.com with SMTP id w7so1299462qcr.16 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:37:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=2Q+DFlo0butekSM9cdM87/1ve9mvBc78ulT67SDhnFI=; b=s9LQ2jPyBJjBgebtNm+XBgLF45/hZlH5/lyha0gt/qEXAGHg5Ms8bkSbCMdc/Dwu7x 5WbGutCOKHB7+vK0o6SQpdWHkjmF46SYY0MkVl0GOA6rMAyxt6aAW+n8nfWh8jxrMRub tZwqBEjkAEu54g304WsjyN+DGqfX2aIjcYAdsOF9py5U5a1sqcmsG6hCFjkkBkT+YhwE 7HVIw9WX2FuBDU/b9X6emzmz7uENdcsoCB7kyseR68f7VNXI8tuBvbk+1hbrPNWGCgQt zuNWJK3Je0rxxprm+m4cfvwa6jC3ih1Emj4zqMiaDLtEGGrjBaSxKTzpvR5aVnffxXqs j0XA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.229.114.4 with SMTP id c4mr682082qcq.16.1405100265405; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.104.1 with HTTP; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:37:45 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ZqcDUdkscHxStORxbHHubuk9AXw Message-ID: Subject: tar/gzip recognise ZIP mistake From: Jonny Grant To: bug-gzip@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.17 X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:06:46 -0400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) Hello I'm not a member of this list, could you keep my email address in any replies please. I made a mistake, I did: $ tar xvfz docs.zip gzip: stdin has more than one entry--rest ignored tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now What I realised is that this error message is not that informative. I can realise I made an obvious mistake, and should have used "unzip", but other users might not? Is there a way that gzip could recognise that there isn't a standard GZIP header? Regards, Jon From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Mon Nov 10 13:39:41 2014 Received: (at control) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Nov 2014 18:39:42 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56265 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XntsL-0000ZK-Ki for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:39:41 -0500 Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:60213) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XntsJ-0000ZB-VI for control@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:39:40 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41002A60040 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:39:39 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id G1K0liKed5Yl for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:39:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 70436A60043 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:39:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54610662.6060706@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:39:30 -0800 From: Paul Eggert Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: control@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: gzip bug report maintenance Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: control X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) severity 18000 wishlist severity 17804 wishlist severity 16471 wishlist