[afnog] Untar large files

[Hugo Lombard]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 08:25:27PM +0200, Veronique Umutesi wrote:
> Dear Hugo
> Here are the outputs:
> 

Thanks Veronique!

> 
>   gzip --list --verbose myfile.tar.gz:
> method  crc     date  time           compressed        uncompressed  ratio   uncompressed_name
> defla 2c5f4ca8 Oct 19 18:20        110935750031          2526345216 -4291.2%   myfile.tar
> 

hmmm, uncompressed is indeed smaller than compressed... the plot
thickens.

Can you please send the output of:

  gzip -dc myfile.gz | file -

-- 
Hugo Lombard