[Gmsh] install notes 1.54.1

[Jean Vis]

On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 09:23:48 -0700
Gary Bollenbach <dialup at treacle.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I had a problem with extracting the source, 1.54.1. 
> This is for win98, my TAR, 1.13.25-5, is in a recent Cygwin.
> It gave me this:
> 
> $ tar xvf /GMSH/source/gmsh-1.54.1-source.tgz.tar
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> My usual extractor is the freeware IZArc, I 
...

$ tar xvzf /GMSH/source/gmsh-1.54.1-source.tgz.tar
        ^  you need to specify the z option with compressed tar files

IZArc will maybee process the file if you change the order of the extension: simething like gmsh-1.54.1-source.tar.gz