[Newbies] CogSpur on a Mac

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:41 PM, Dan Norton <dnorton at mindspring.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to help someone many miles away install CogSpur on a mac. I run
> Linux as a newb.
>
> On the mac they have run:
>
>
> $ curl -L -o CogSpur.tgz https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/download/201608171728/cog_macos32x86_squeak.cog.spur_201608171728.tar.gz
>
> But when they try to unzip:
>
>  $ tar -zxvf CogSpur.tgz
>
> tar: Unrecognized archive format
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
>
> Thanks.
>  - Dan
>
> The tar command fine here (Mac OS X 10.11.6).

Double-clicking CogSpur.tgz works just as well.

I suspect the download was corrupt. Try deleting it and download again.
Maybe use a web browser instead of curl.

- Bert -
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