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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:37:03 +0300
From: Vlad Kozin <epbox@yandex.ru>
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Hello Srinivas,

Thursday, March 6, 2003, 5:35:14 AM, you wrote:


SV> # pkg_add autoconf-2.53_1.tgz

SV> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
SV> tar: child returned status 1
SV> tar: +CONTENTS not found in archive
SV> pkg_add: unable to open table of contents file `+CONTENTS' - not a package?
SV> #


SV> # file autoconf-2.53_1.tgz
SV> autoconf-2.53_1.tgz: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Fri
SV> Feb 21 08:23:11 2003, max compression, os: Unix
SV> #

Try using a binary mode while ftp-downloading if u haven't yet?

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