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From: ah@alvman.robin.de (Andreas Haakh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Problem with gzip on FBSD 2.0 bindist
Date: 30 Nov 1994 13:42:27 GMT
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Message-ID: <3bhvg3$dhv@alvman.RoBIN.de>
References: <3bg7s3$49@edwin.bga.com>
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In <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
>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.
Try instead
cat bindist.?? | gunzip | tar tvf -
or
cat bindist.?? | tar tvzf -
Andreas