[gnu.utils.bug] Bison tar problem.

clayton@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (R. Clayton) (05/08/89)

There seems to be a problem with the bison tar file:

   t date
   Sun May  7 15:58:27 EDT 1989

   t ftp prep.ai.mit.edu
   Connected to prep.ai.mit.edu.
   220 aeneas FTP server (Version 4.136 Mon Oct 31 23:18:38 EST 1988) ready.
   Name (prep.ai.mit.edu:clayton): anonymous
   Password (prep.ai.mit.edu:anonymous):
   331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
   230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
   ftp> cd /u2/emacs
   250 CWD command successful.
   ftp> binary
   200 Type set to I.
   ftp> get bison-1.01.tar.Z
   200 PORT command successful.
   150 Opening data connection for bison-1.01.tar.Z (128.96.41.1,8670)
   (224843 bytes).
   226 Transfer complete.
   224843 bytes received in 49.26 seconds (4.5 Kbytes/s)
   ftp> quit
   221 Goodbye.

   t ls -lt bison*
   -rw-r--r--  1 clayton    224843 May  7 15:55 bison-1.01.tar.Z

   t uncompress bison-1.01.tar.Z

   t ls -lt bison*
   -rw-r--r--  1 clayton  21667689 May  7 15:55 bison-1.01.tar

   t tar tf bison*
   bison-dist/
   tar: directory checksum error (661 != 7643)

   t

This occurred on a vax 8650 under ultrix 1.2.