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Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:03:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Wei Weng <wweng@stevens-tech.edu>
To: Gordon Wang <guelph@tpts5.seed.net.tw>
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Subject: Re: netscape unpack?
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On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Gordon Wang wrote:

> Dear Sir 
> I am a FreeBSD 2.2.1 user.
> I just 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
> 
> What wrong with these messages?
> What should I do?
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> 
> Gordon
> 
mostly likely  you got a bad tar file. Try to download it again. 

wei