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Date:      Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:42:05 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Adam Hefetz <adam_hefetz@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports
Message-ID:  <3953A16D.37153EC9@3-cities.com>
References:  <20000623113853.25098.qmail@hotmail.com>

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Adam Hefetz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I downloaded the whole port collection and try to extract it. It worked fine
> until it got to 'ports/japanese/ebw3/files/README.access'
> and gave me this message:
> 
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--fomat violated
> tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file
> tar: child returned status 1

Cvsup the ports. There is a ports-supfile and I have it setup to do a
ports-all. You aren't checking out the files as much as you are
checking out the structure.

Kent

> 
> What to do?
> Thanks, Adam
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