Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:52:58 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com> To: Gordon Wang <guelph@tpts5.seed.net.tw> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netscape unpack? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971220114451.21510A-100000@shell9.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <349BB32A.5020@tpts5.seed.net.tw>
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Don't know if this will help, but try checking the ftp.netscpae.com with
ls -la to find what Netscape thinks is the correct size of the file and do
the same on your system. I know this is not as good as checking the md5
of both files, but the last time I visited Netscape I don't seem to
remember Netscape making the md5 available.
Next, instead of piping from gzip into tar try (for some reason I was
never able to pipe gunzip to tar, but I also didn't try very hard):
tar -xvzf netscape.....(the full name of the file)
^
the z option will gunzip the file first. This will also unpack everything
into the current directory so you might want to create a tmp install
directory and unpack it there.
Hope this helps.
- burton -
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
>
>
>
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