<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hello,<div><br></div><div>why not use<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>tar -zxf install-tl-unx.tar.gz</div><div><br></div><div>instead? Or in fact you can omit -z altogether. I always install TeXLive this way on MacOS (which is a unix machine, after all).</div><div><br></div><div>—Ettore<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 16, 2023, at 21:34, Kozlowski, Patryk T. <pkozlows@caltech.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AgmenaPro-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Apologize. My previous screenshot was not very informative. In this screenshot, I have listed the contents of my current directory, but zcat on the file is still not working.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div id="ms-outlook-mobile-signature"><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><hr size="2" width="98%" align="center"></div><div id="divRplyFwdMsg"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="">From:</span></b><span style=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kozlowski, Patryk T.<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, March 16, 2023 5:15:03 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>tex-live@tug.org <tex-live@tug.org><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Texlive installation issue</span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></div></div></div><div><div><div><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I am having trouble with one specific step:</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">zcat install-tl-unx.tar.gz | tar xf -</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">on this website<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">https://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the installation of texlive. Specifically, I am getting attached screenshot. I am trying to follow the installation, instructions for this extension<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://github.com/James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop/wiki/Install" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">https://github.com/James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop/wiki/Install</a>, which requires an installation of texlive.I am using the McIntosh operating system Ventura Edition. </div></div><div><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p></div><div id="x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature"><div><p class="xmsonormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p></div></div></div></div></div><span id="cid:57C165C3-EC90-4725-B22C-CF080A940061"><Screenshot 2023-03-16 at 6.30.35 PM.png></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>