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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
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Message-ID: <3bg7s3$49@edwin.bga.com>
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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:

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# 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 
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Is there an updated version of gzip that I'm missing?  Anyone else have
this problem.

Paul
phighley@bga.com