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From: root@grumbly.UUCP (Superuser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: emacs
Keywords: emacs archives, uunet
Message-ID: <30@grumbly.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 90 03:08:57 GMT
References: <29@grumbly.UUCP> <797@dsachg1.UUCP>
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In article <797@dsachg1.UUCP> zhb2165@dsachg1.dsac.dla.mil (Ned D Hanks) writes:
->In article <29@grumbly.UUCP> root@grumbly.com writes:
->| I've been having trouble uncompressing the emacs 18.55 archives
->| from the uunet archives.  18.55.Z.00 uncompressed ok, but I'm left
->| with a 660k file that doesn't execute [doesn't chop itself up into 
->| the smaller source files].
->| 
->| 18.55.Z.01 and 02 came through uucp at the right size(256k), but
->| they won't uncompress.  I've taken quite a bit of source from
->| the uunet archives and have never had any problems like this?
->| 
->| rbduc
->
->I am having the same problem. I thought it was a bad download. And
->am downloading them again.

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Some body mailed me the fix -->

put all the 18.55.Z.?? files in a directory, the put in this line:

cat 18.55.Z.* | uncompress | tar xvf -

(he had ... | tar xvof -   , but my tar doesn't use o )

works fine. 


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