[Flightgear-devel] Mountainous areas

2005-05-26 Thread Corrubia, Stacie K
I have been trying to build some scenery over some pretty mountainous
areas in California (w117n35) using SRTM 1 arcsec data.  I end up with
some very strange looking scenery with HUGE cliffs.  

I wanted to compare the FG base scenery from the downloads but when I
tried to unpack the data ended up with the following error:
Under cygwin:
 gunzip  w120n30.tgz | tar xvf -
  w120n30/
  w120n30/w116n30/
  w120n30/w116n30/1056256.btg.gz
  w120n30/w116n30/1056256.stg
  w120n30/w116n30/1056258.btg.gz
  tar: Skipping to next header
  tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

 gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data --format violated

 
 

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mountainous areas

2005-05-26 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Did you download this file in binary mode ? The basic windows ftp client 
is in ascii when started and corrupt binary files with line endings 
conversion.


-Fred

Corrubia, Stacie K wrote :


I have been trying to build some scenery over some pretty mountainous
areas in California (w117n35) using SRTM 1 arcsec data.  I end up with
some very strange looking scenery with HUGE cliffs.  


I wanted to compare the FG base scenery from the downloads but when I
tried to unpack the data ended up with the following error:
Under cygwin:
gunzip  w120n30.tgz | tar xvf -
 w120n30/
 w120n30/w116n30/
 w120n30/w116n30/1056256.btg.gz
 w120n30/w116n30/1056256.stg
 w120n30/w116n30/1056258.btg.gz
 tar: Skipping to next header
 tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data --format violated
 





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