stanonik@NPRDC.ARPA (01/21/87)
Hello, We have had no luck uncompress'ing the edist ftp'ed from prep. uncompress seems to always give up, complaining "corrupt input". This has been happening for months (forever?). Are we the only ones having this problem? (We're running 4.3bsd on a vax 780.) Any chance prep is using something other than the compress distributed with 4.3bsd? Maybe using some options? Thanks, Ron Stanonik stanonik@nprdc.arpa
crl@NEWTON.PHYSICS.PURDUE.EDU (Charles R. LaBrec) (01/21/87)
Due to fixing a bug in ftp for 4.3 BSD, binary files may not transfer properly between 4.2 & 4.3 BSD sites unless you do a "binary" command. Even though it is documented, it is sort of obscure (for unix-to-unix transfers at least), so you might have missed it. Charles LaBrec crl @ newton.physics.purdue.edu
neves@ai.WISC.EDU (David M. Neves) (01/21/87)
I was never able to uncompress GNU Emacs in 4.2 using our uncompress.
I finally FTPed PREP's compress and that worked.
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Oops! Binary mode, eh? Thanks, Ron stanonik@nprdc.arpa
JBS@deep-thought.mit.edu (Jeff Siegal) (01/21/87)
I'm not sure which version of compress was distributed with 4.3, but you can get a working version from any mod.sources archive (j.cc.purdue.edu for example). Jeff Siegal -------