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From: moran@m5.trl.oz (Ian Moran)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: contrib/MOTIF.Xt.tar.Z broken on expo
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Date: 20 Nov 89 06:03:20 GMT
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Ted writes:
>mellon@nigiri.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon)
>If I do a ``zcat MOTIF.Xt.tar.Z |tar tf -'', it goes for a while, and
>then gets a directory checksum error.   Is there a known good copy of
>this file on somebody's machine available for public FTP?
>             _MelloN_

I write: 
try using using the command 'type binary' inside ftp
prior to using 'get .. ' as you should then find that the transfer
yields a file which zcat and tar are happy to deal with. 
I was able to extract a legible copy of MOTIF.Xt.tar.Z from expo.

Ian Moran (moran@trldeity.trl.oz.au).