From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 20 11:55:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA08805 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:55:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from proxy4.ba.best.com (root@proxy4.ba.best.com [206.184.139.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA08799 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:55:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsampley@best.com) Received: from shell9.ba.best.com (bsampley@shell9.ba.best.com [206.184.139.140]) by proxy4.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id LAA22949; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:52:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:52:58 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley X-Sender: bsampley@shell9.ba.best.com To: Gordon Wang cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netscape unpack? In-Reply-To: <349BB32A.5020@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 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 > > >