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From: Tom Lislegaard <tl@cmr.no>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-RELEASE on ftp.freebsd.org no good ?
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 18:34:33 +0100
Organization: Christian Michelsen Research a/s
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Tom Lislegaard wrote:
> 
> Installation of 2.2 bin fails similar to this
> 
>  r-xr-xr-x  3/7   8192 Mar 16 08:37 1997 usr/bin/lsvfs
>  r-xr-xr-x  3/7  20480 Mar 16 08:37 1997 usr/bin/m4
>  r-xr-xr-x  3/7  69632 Mar 16 08:37 1997 usr/bin/mail
>  stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
>  tar: read error: unexpected EOF
> 
> The bad file is apparently bin.bg. I've downloaded it from
> ftp.freebsd.org
> several times without any change.
> 
> -tom

Sorry, my mistake - the corrupt file was actually bin.bf.
I downloaded another copy of this and everything installs fine.

-tom