[ale] TAR Problems

[John Mills]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Amarendra GODBOLE wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:11:34PM -0400, SAngell at nan.net wrote:
  
> Seems that the tarball that you have downloaded is corrupt, i.e., the
> entire file is not correctly downloaded. Get it downloaded completely
> and then check out.

SAngel, you mention having the problem with several archives. How did you
obtain them? If by 'ftp', did you set 'binary' before making the
transfers? Gzipped files would be corrupted by transfer in 'ascii' mode.

Just a thought ...

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Regards -
 John Mills

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