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From: howard@CHEETA.ISI.EDU (Bryan Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Uncompress
Message-ID: <880308215542.21002c39@Cheeta.ISI.Edu>
Date: 9 Mar 88 06:25:04 GMT
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Reply-To: Howard@cheeta.isi.edu (Bryan Howard)
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I have been trying to get the latest GNU Emacs distribution (18.50).
It is available from prep.ai.mit.edu in compressed tar format.
I FTPed the file using binary format into my directory on venera.
When I tried to unpack it (zcat edist.tar-18.50.Z | tar tf -) I got
the following error:

...
dist-18.50/info/gdb-1
dist-18.50/info/gdb-2
tar: directory checksum error (3823 != 44600)
%

I tried this on venera.isi.edu (4.3bsd Unix), nova.isi.edu (sun 4.2 Rel 3.4,
sun2), action.isi.edu (sun 4.2 Rel 3.4, sun3), and vlsif.isi.edu (Ultrix
2.0).  Same results everywhere.

I posted a question to info-gnu-emacs and several poeple told me they
had no problems; did I use binary mode.  A few responses expressed
agreement with my problem.

Do I have a problem here with uncompress or tar?  I suspect that since
several other people had no problems, it's probably not the file itself.
But I'm not sure.

Bryan D. Howard						Howard @ ISI.Edu
USC/Information Sciences Institute
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