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From: daniels@biles.com (Brad Daniels)
Subject: Re: Inverse gmtime?
References: <Cr6v4t.FqB@biles.com> <CrBInI.4p1@twinsun.com> <mikey.113.001438CC@mcs.com>
Organization: Biles and Associates
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 21:52:55 GMT
Message-ID: <CrEq48.708@biles.com>
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In article <mikey.113.001438CC@mcs.com>, Mike Young <mikey@mcs.com> wrote:
...
>I ftp'ed both tz* files from nih.gov, but I can't uncompress them. gzip 
>complains about "invalid compressed data -- crc error." Any ideas what I can 
>do?

You need to explicitly set transfer mode to binary befor ftp'ing.
elsi.nci.nih.gov is running an old version of FTP which doesn't set it
automatically.

- Brad
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+ Brad Daniels                  | "For some are UNIX because they were born +
+ Biles and Associates          |  that way, others were made that way un-  +
+ These are my views,           |  naturally, and others are UNIX because   +
+ not B&A's                     |  of the kingdom of heaven" (Matt 19:12)   +
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