From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 4 05:01:07 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA23251 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 05:01:07 -0700 Received: from saul1.u.washington.edu (spaz@saul1.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA23245 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 05:01:05 -0700 Received: by saul1.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.05/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA06584; Tue, 4 Jul 95 05:01:04 -0700 X-Sender: spaz@saul1.u.washington.edu Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 05:01:04 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz To: FreeBSD hackerlist Subject: tar.gz's via cu? Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk HI folks; i foolishly expected that i would continue to have a ppp account over the summer from school...wrong o rama! as a result, i found myself rediscovering the sublime joys of cu. Can i use it to xfer tar files? It seemed to manage ascii patch files fine,but i get an odd error on the tar.gz that i have sent myself : 128: {41} cat rzsz-3.34.tar.gz | tar xzvf - incomplete literal tree gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: child returned status 1 that is a new one on me! it did it twice, and the file explodes successfully on the remote system, so i dont think the problem is with the original gzip file. cu also hangs hard after i send the file over. i have to kill it from another xterm. i have no such problem with the two text files i recieved. any suggestions appreciated.. i imagine that if i can get this fixed, then things will be fine... tnx! ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@stein.u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life