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Article #2831Re: HiddenWords, sndMucker, and artillery...
From: David Basiji
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 00:48
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 00:48
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sowa@amdew.llnl.gov (Erik C. Sowa) writes: >>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Buck <tim@rri.UUCP> writes: >Tim> In article <1992Oct7.125957.12258@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) writes: >> >>These three were recently posted to nova/sonata as .tar.Z files. However, >>when I try to uncompress them, it seems to go for awhile, make a file >>about 5-6 megs big, then die for some strange (unpredictable) error. Has >>anyone else had any problems uncompressing these files? Any idea what is >>going wrong for me? >> >Tim> It sounds to me like you forgot to use BINARY when you FTPed them. >Well, I ftp'ed them in binary mode and got the same problems. Perhaps >they were uploaded by the author in ascii mode by mistake? >-- >erik sowa (sowa@amdew.llnl.gov) Make sure you uncompress from the command line and not using Opener.app. Also, permissions aren't preserved so you may need to make the thing executable before it'll work. Dave
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!stein.u.washington.edu!basiji From: basiji@stein.u.washington.edu (David Basiji) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: HiddenWords, sndMucker, and artillery... Message-ID: <1992Oct9.004823.213@u.washington.edu> Date: 9 Oct 92 00:48:23 GMT Article-I.D.: u.1992Oct9.004823.213 References: <1992Oct7.125957.12258@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <556@rri.UUCP> <SOWA.92Oct8114931@amdew.llnl.gov> Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Washington Lines: 25