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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 16 Dec 1996 gippolit@ccsmtp2.eccs.com wrote:

>      I've  had a great deal of problems extracting some xfree86 archives 
>      from xfree86.org.  The files  are X32bin.tgz, X32lib.tgz!
>      
>      When I try tar xzfv filename I recieve an error about stdin.   
>      Then when I  do ls I see bin, lib dir then some Has Anyone had luck 
>      downloading archives form there.

I don't normally download directly from xfree86.org, it's so darn busy.
The exact same files are in
ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/2.x.x-RELEASE/XF8632/ if you need them.

Make sure you're in binary mode.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major