From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 17 13:08:00 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA19100 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 13:08:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from eccs.com (eccs.com [199.29.50.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA19074 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 13:07:31 -0800 (PST) From: gippolit@ccsmtp2.eccs.com Received: from tnup.eccs.com by eccs.com (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA06422; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 16:13:26 +0500 Received: from ccsmtp2.eccs.com by tnup.eccs.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA12686; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 16:05:45 -0500 Received: from ccMail by ccsmtp2.eccs.com (SMTPLINK V2.11.01) id AA850856844; Tue, 17 Dec 96 16:57:58 EST Date: Tue, 17 Dec 96 16:57:58 EST Message-Id: <9611178508.AA850856844@ccsmtp2.eccs.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: XFree86 archives problem Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have been having problems extracting XFree86 archives from ftp.XFreeBSD.org. When I do a tar xzfv X329TGU.tgz I get the following error gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error tar: archive X329TGU.tgz EOF not on block boundary Yes I'm using binary mode. This has happened to me on almost all archives. I'm running 2.1.5 and trying to install X 3.2... Thanks.