Re: [Gimp-user] Opening uncompressed NASA image files in GIMP

[Kevin Cozens <kevin ve3syb ca>]

On 2020-12-04 10:31 p.m., Rick Kline wrote:
> ls -l results in -rw-r--r--@ 1 rickklinestaff179736 Dec2 23:12 
> ../pds-2.4.116.tar.gz
>
> I imagine there should be an x in there somewhere.

The pds-2.4.116.tar.gz is an archive containing one or more (compressed) 
files in it. It is not an executable file but it might contain executable 
files. Not seeing an x in the file permissions is expected.

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