From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 31 19:22:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA18219 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:22:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stcgate.statcan.ca (stcgate.statcan.ca [142.206.192.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA18214 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:22:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by stcgate.statcan.ca (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA07319; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 22:24:41 -0400 Received: from stcinet.statcan.ca(142.206.128.146) by stcgate via smap (V1.3) id sma007301; Fri Aug 1 02:24:24 1997 Received: from statcan.ca by statcan.ca (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA22945; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 22:23:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 22:21:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Jeays X-Sender: jeays@austral To: Captain Jason Beltz cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GZIP Question In-Reply-To: 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 On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Captain Jason Beltz wrote: > To Whom It May Concern; > I appear to be having trouble with GZIP. I retrieved a copy of > Linux's version of Netscape (I am using the compatibility library) and I > am trying to uncompress the archieve (gz extension). GZIP keeps telling > me it's not a GZIP archieve. > What sould I do? Please let me know if you need further > information on the configuration of my machine past the following > information: > > CPU: Intel Pentium 150 > Memory: 64 MB > Disk1: 6.4GB - approx. 5.1 GB free > OS: FreeBSD 2.2.2RELEASE (installed over FTP through PPP dialup) > > Sincerely; > Raymond Dobbs > > > Did you remember to FTP it in binary mode? Forgetting this is my usual cause of corrupted TAR files, unfortunately! Check the file size is exactly the same as the source you obtained it from.