[BioC] How to unzip the spike-in data downloaded from Irizarry's Affycomp II ? (fwd)

[fenghai duan]

Your tricks work like a charm!

Thank you very much.

Frank


On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:00:48 -0500 (EST), Harris A. Jaffee
<hjaffee at jhmi.edu> wrote:
> Perhaps the file suffix (.tgz) is the problem.
> Can you try renaming your downloaded file to
> 
>        spikein.tar.Z
> 
> or some such?  Then gunzip should read it and
> produce "spikein.tar".  If this works, then
> 
>        tar xvf spikein.tar
> 
> should work.
> 
> I believe that Irizarry named the file expecting
> "tar -z" to un-gzip it (after downloading).
> 
> Does this help?  -Harris
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:26:59 -0500
> From: fenghai duan <affymetrix at gmail.com>
> To: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [BioC] How to unzip the spike-in data downloaded from Irizarry's
>    Affycomp II ?
> 
> Dear BioC people,
> 
> I downloaded the spike-in data from Irizarry's Affycomp II and they
> seem to be tar zipped file. However, I failed to unzip them by winzip,
> winrar, tar or gzip. Could anyone tell me how to extract the files
> from these files?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
>