From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 27 13:26:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA20245 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 13:26:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from python.shoal.net.au (perrya@python.shoal.net.au [203.26.44.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA20225 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 13:26:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perrya@python.shoal.net.au) Received: from localhost (perrya@localhost) by python.shoal.net.au (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA22444; Sun, 28 Dec 1997 08:24:07 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 08:24:07 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew To: Gordon Wang cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file download ? In-Reply-To: <34A4A02D.73D4@tpts5.seed.net.tw> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Did you change to binary mode to download the file? Andrew Perry > > Dear Sir > I am a FreeBSD 2.2.1 user. > I downloaded the netscape file: > navigator-v404-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz . > And I unpacked it by: gzip -dc navigator-v404-export. > x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz |tar -xvf - . > > But I got these messages: > gzip:navigator-v404-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz > :unexpected end of file > tar: unexpected EOF on archive file > > Therefore , the file I downloaded might have a problem. > So I downloaded it again. > But when I used ncftp2 to download this file again,I > got a message "file existed" even after I removed the > file navigator-v404-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz > by using the command "rv" and "ls" to check it has been removed. > What's wrong with it? > What should I do to download this file again? > > Thanks for your help > Happy new year > > Gordon > >