[comp.emacs] GNU distributions on prep garbled.

hans@sunswe.SE (Hans Albertsson Sun Sweden) (09/28/88)

A friend brought a tape back from MIT, a tar of compressed tar files from
prep, with almost all of the GNU stuff. Unfortunately we're unable to
uncompress anything, since uncompress complains about "corrupt data" after
about 20 - 90 Kbytes of any file. 

I seem to remember something about some problem along these lines,
reported a year ago or so, in this newsgroup.

Could somebody explain, and perhaps even suggest a work-around?