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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh 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 Lines: 21 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 -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Clams are your friends