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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 23:47:05 ric
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problem unzipping file with gunzip
>
> > Nope. Either whatever you're using to download it (Netscape? :-) is
> batting 3 truncations for 3 attempts, or the file you're downloading is
> truncated. I have never known gzip to lie.
>
> Normally, you would unpack a tar.gz with tar -xz, but this does in fact
> do a gunzip, and you will have the same problem. You might check if the
> file you download is the same size on your system as it is on the system
> you got it from. If it is you might want to look up the site
> administrator or the maintainer of the package. I'd want to know if it
> happened with my one package. :-)
>
> Lawson
> >< Microsoft free environment
>
> This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
Is it possible that during the download, Netscape automagically unzipped the file,
thus gzip can not since it is no longer in a zipped format??? I thought I had read
something to this effect a while back.
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