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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!wupost!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: 386bsd/srcdist corrupt? References: <1992Aug12.023903.1433@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 12 Aug 92 09:08:44 GMT Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de Message-ID: <veit.713610524@du9ds3> Lines: 41 In <1992Aug12.023903.1433@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> ignasiak@convex.cl.msu.edu (Todd Ignasiak) writes: >I have tried to get the source for 386bsd from a few different sites, >including agate. And each time I do, the tar file seems to be corrupt. >I think the problem is the first line of the tar file, it seems to be >garbled. After that it looks normal. >I have tried it several times, on several different machines, with the same >result each time. >Here's what I do: > - download the files (yes I used binary mode) src01.?? > - cat src01.?? > scr.tar.Z > - uncompress src.tar.Z > - tar xvf src.tar.Z >tar then gives me a message saying it doesn't look like a tar file. >Am I overlooking something totally simple here or what? >Thanks, >Todd Ignasiak >-- >---------------------------------------------------------------- >* Todd Ignasiak Michigan State University * >* ignasiak@convex.cl.msu.edu East Lansing, MI * >---------------------------------------------------------------- RTFM. These are cpio archives, to be extracted with "extract" or with cat src* | uncompress | cpio -ivd The information about this can be found in INSTALL.NOTES. But, of course, real programmers don't read doc-files. Holger -- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"