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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!bigbang.astro.indiana.edu!pitts From: pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) Subject: Re: Xtrek on NETBSD anyone? Message-ID: <CFKAp6.LtL@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Keywords: In article <UWKIBOED@math.fu-berlin.de>, rickrac@knock1.mgh.harvard.edu (Jimmy Rearick) writes: Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: bigbang.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University References: <9310261428.AA05746@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> <CFIFzo.33A@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <UWKIBOED@math.fu-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 15:22:18 GMT Lines: 34 > > I ported the berkrick netrek client about a week ago. It supports all the > > features the BRM team supports (short packets, RSA verivication, the > > metaserver, config distress). It is for FreeBSD, however. It was > > compiled under XFree86-1.3u1, FreeBSD-1.0-EPSILON. > > > > It is avalible on the official BRM distribution site: > > > > ftp.cd.chalmers.se in /pub/netrek/brm-bin > > > > It is called BRM-3.0pl2.FreeBSD.gz. The RSA key is registered with > > RSA servers everywhere. > > I got this file and when I tried to gunzip it I got the following error: > > gunzip: BRM.3.00pl2.FreeBSD.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated > > Any Ideas? > > Jim Jim, Be sure to use the 'binary' ftp mode to get this file. 'ascii' mode will not work and is the default for most ftp clients. I just copied down the BRM client using binary mode, gunzip'ped it and it worked fine. Hope this gets you on line! The client is really sweet. The short packets make playing over the phone with ppp a real treat. Jim