Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 07:23:20 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Grant Cooper <grant.cooper@nucleus.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: apache file Message-ID: <20020710062320.GA36629@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <009d01c22751$d67325e0$23b9fea9@ab.hsia.telus.net> References: <00fd01c2277f$e67eba70$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> <3D2B3074.9426.941E460@localhost> <009d01c22751$d67325e0$23b9fea9@ab.hsia.telus.net>
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 08:06:31AM -0600, Grant Cooper wrote:
> I downloaded, httpd-2.0.39-i386-freebsd4.6.tar.gz and attempted to unzip
> using, gzip -d and gunzip. Both gave me the same error - "invalid compressed
> data--format violated". I have freeBSD 4.5. So I used winzip on my win98
> machine and it decompressed fine. What am I doing wrong?
ftp download in ASCII mode? That's kind of unusual on FreeBSD as the
ftp client defaults to binary mode. Other OSes do ftp defaults
differently. Some compression/decompression programs can detect that
sort of damage and compensate.
Cheers,
Matthew
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