Not possible to extract tar.gz archive in Centos

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Published on 2012-10-11T15:00:49Z Indexed on 2012/10/11 15:38 UTC
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I have just uploaded tar.gz archive to my Centos server from my home Windows 7 computer. Before that, it was extracted from .zip archive.

When I try to extract it:

tar -xvf file.tar.gz
gunzip file.tar.gz

It always give me error: "not in gzip format"

The archive is not corrupted, because it is possible to extract it in Windows with Winrar.

The archive is quite big, more than 100 MB.

I don't know, what's the problem. Could you help me please? Thanks.

Peter

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