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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!caen!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!bga.com!bga.com!nobody From: phighley@bga.com (Paul T. Highley) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Problem with gzip on FBSD 2.0 bindist Date: 29 Nov 1994 15:53:07 -0600 Organization: Real/Time Communications - Bob Gustwick and Associates Lines: 37 Message-ID: <3bg7s3$49@edwin.bga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: edwin.bga.com This problem is clearly an oversight on my part since people all over the comp.os.386bsd* groups have successfully installed 2.0 FreeBSD from the binary distribution images on ftp.freebsd.org ... however, I am unable to extract the files. I have obtained images (namely bindist.aa) from two different servers (ftp.freebsd.org and wuarchive.wustl.edu) and attempted to extract the on two different OS's (FBSD and AIX) using gzip/gunzip. I consistently get the following: ---------------------------------------------------------- # gzip -c -d bindist.aa | tar -tvf - drwxr-xr-x 0 0 0 Nov 21 22:08:07 1994 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 7 0 Nov 22 06:01:01 1994 bin/ -r-xr-xr-x 3 7 45056 Nov 22 05:59:59 1994 bin/cat -r-xr-xr-x 3 7 53248 Nov 22 06:00:01 1994 bin/chmod -r-xr-xr-x 3 7 57344 Nov 22 06:00:02 1994 bin/cp -r-xr-xr-x 3 7 225280 Nov 22 06:00:05 1994 bin/csh -r-xr-xr-x 3 7 61440 Nov 22 06:00:12 1994 bin/date -r-xr-xr-x 3 7 57344 Nov 22 06:00:13 1994 bin/dd gunzip: bindist.aa: unexpected end of file # # gzip -l bindist.aa compressed uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name 240640 -594415213 0.3% bindist.aa # # gzip -V gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93) Compilation options: DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H ---------------------------------------------------------- Is there an updated version of gzip that I'm missing? Anyone else have this problem. Paul phighley@bga.com