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Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 00:42:24 -0500
From: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>
To: James Greenhalgh <james-list@ntlworld.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Strange ports and/or GNU tar problem
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On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 04:29:46AM +0100, James Greenhalgh wrote:
> All of a sudden, lots of tgz files, both grabbed during port installs or
> downloaded elsewhere, give this message:
> 
> gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
> tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file
> tar: child returned status 1
> 
> It should be noted everything still works - the files are complete.  Has anyone
> else seen this?  Is there a new and strangely different tar out there?

The only time of seen it is with corrupt or partially loaded
tgz files. I'm sure you have already passed that consideration by...

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