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From: ted@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Theodore Bujewski)
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Subject: retrieving from ftp sites
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Date: 4 Jun 91 21:44:35 GMT
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I am unsure of how to uncompress and untar many of the files at the
archive sites.  I have retrieved many files and have tried to
uncompress them and untar them with the command

     zcat "file".tar.Z | tar -xvf -

I have also tried several permutations of this.  The result is either
it works or I get a checksum error.  My question is: Is this a problem
with the commands I am using, my machine, the way I am retrieving the
file, or the way I am transfering the file onto my machine? (I
download the ftp file to a DOS floppy and then copy it to my Next). 
I would really appreciate it if someone would tell me what I need to
do.  There are a lot of files which do not work.

Thanks in advance,
Ted (ted@cs.ucla.edu)

(BTW This may be a stupid question, but what is a checksum error?)