SmaugFuss download error with tar

Hola, All-

I downloaded smaugfuss from the website, and when i did a tar -xvf smaug14afuss.tar, i get the following errors:

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.

Any ideas what this might mean? Again, I am using cygwin on an xp sp1 box.

I am going to have to learn to use Linux, aren't I? all to run an old fashioned text mud...

Any help will be appreciated. it is possible that a few beers will be appreciated more.

The FUSS file is actually a tgz, not a tar, so you'll need to add a z to your command line options, like so:

tar -xzvf smaug14afuss.tgz

This will then unpack into a SmaugFUSS directory.

Yes, if you look at the file name it is:

http://www.gammon.com.au/files/smaug/smaug14afuss.tgz

However I believe Internet Exploder has a habit of changing the suffix of downloads, for reasons best known to their programmers.

Yes, the Mozilla developers also had the same nasty habit there for awhile and you had to be careful how a file got saved. Though I find that the right-click/save-as method seems to solve this more often than not, even in IE.

This might be because the programs are relying on MIME-types, and just assume that any kind of "archive: zip" (or whatever the type is) is an actual zip file, not a zipped tar. *shrug* Then again, maybe the programmers are just wacko. :)