Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:06:29 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> To: jwlo@ms11.hinet.net (Doug Lo) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uncompress problem. Message-ID: <199805010306.XAA24463@pollux.loco.net> In-Reply-To: <3548C4C6.899EA88D@ms11.hinet.net> from Doug Lo at "May 1, 98 02:36:54 am"
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> Hi,
>
> I got a uncompress problem. When I uncompress files or run pkg_add to add the
> package,
> it got:
>
> gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
> tar: child returned status 1
>
> But it still can uncompress the file, would anyone tell me why?
this is not really serious. It is caused by some sort of incorrect
null padding in the file, and does not affect the validity of the
uncompressed file. Gzip is expecting some nulls, but they're not there.
Don't worry.
Dave
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