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@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@gmail.com> > To: bioconductor@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, > >

I think the current version is fine and just put some notes about how to unzip it. Many thanks to you, On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:04:31 -0500 (EST), Harris A. Jaffee <hjaffee@jhmi.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, fenghai duan wrote: > > Your tricks work like a charm! > > > > Thank you very much. > > Great. Do you think we should have named the file differently, > forcing 2 operations to read it rather than one which might not > exist? Perhaps we just need more explanation on how to unpack > the file? > >