Nicolas Calimet <pov### [at] freefr> wrote:
> >
>  Tar archives are usually compressed with gzip (tar.gz) or bzip2 (tar.bz2).
> Hence you should also pass the proper option to decompress the archive, e.g.
> tar xvzf archive.tar.gz  (note the 'z' for the gzip'ed archive; for an archive
> compressed with bzip2 you could use 'j' instead, but this option/decompressor
> might not be supported by the tar utility installed on your machine).
>
>  In any case, testing the AMD64 MegaPOV binary is no priority, as it will
> normally fail on the Itanium as soon as the  megapov  command is ran.
>
>  - NC

Right, I believe I gunzipped the .gz to produce a .tar, and then tar xvf'd
that. I decompress tars and gzips all the time, that shouldnt have tripped
me up.  But perhaps I may have had a brain phart moment. It happens to the
best of us. :-)

No worries either way.

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