> We have to install an application (Ethereal) on UNIX,
> but can't unzip <ethereal-0.8.14-solaris2.7-sparc-local.gz>
> In addition to the above we have confusing with size of this file.
> We found out 4.5M with your's 1.6M
How did you download the file? Perhaps your browser is being
"helpful" and, for example, uncompressed the file without bothering to
remove the ".gz" from the end of the name.
I downloaded it with "wget" (a helpful tool if browsers are being too
"helpful"), and it was:
cranford$ ls -l ethereal-0.8.14-solaris2.7-sparc-local.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 guy engr 1626047 Nov 20 16:42 ethereal-0.8.14-solaris2.7-sparc-local.gz
1.6MB.
Then I uncompressed it, and it was:
cranford$ ls -l ethereal-0.8.14-solaris2.7-sparc-local
-rw-r--r-- 1 guy engr 4740096 Nov 20 16:42 ethereal-0.8.14-solaris2.7-sparc-local
4.5MB. (Put the "M" in quotes if you want, as "Mega" means "1024*1024"
here. :-))
Try running "file" on the file in question; if "file" does *not* say
it's gzipped, your browser (or whatever tool you used to download it)
probably decided to "help" you by uncompressing it for you *without*
stripping the ".gz" off. If so, rename it to
"ethereal-0.8.14-solaris2.7-sparc-local" and try installing it.
(What's somewhat amusing here is that the "file" command that comes with
Solaris 2.6, at least, thinks the uncompressed file is "English text",
but the Ian Darwin "file" we have installed here recognizes it as an
SVR4 package. Go, Sun!)