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From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Problem with gzip on FBSD 2.0 bindist
Date: 30 Nov 1994 11:46:54 GMT
Organization: Jordan Hubbard
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Message-ID: <JKH.94Nov30114654@whisker.hubbard.ie>
References: <3bg7s3$49@edwin.bga.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie
In-reply-to: phighley@bga.com's message of 29 Nov 1994 15:53:07 -0600

In article <3bg7s3$49@edwin.bga.com> phighley@bga.com (Paul T. Highley) writes:

   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 

You're right! :-)

   # gzip -c -d bindist.aa | tar -tvf -

Uh.  No.  You're only doing the first part of what is a *split* archive.
This message:
   gunzip: bindist.aa: unexpected end of file
Is entirely correct! :-)

Try instead:

	cat bindist.?? | gzip -c -d | tar -tvf -

					Jordan
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