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Article #2873Re: HiddenWords, sndMucker, and artillery...
From: Bernhard Nocker
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 22:12
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 22:12
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In article <1992Oct9.004823.213@u.washington.edu> basiji@stein.u.washington.edu (David Basiji) writes: > 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 I did it from shell too, and the result was: 1 boss -> uncompress sndMucker.Z uncompress: corrupt input memory allocation error: attempt to free or realloc space not in heap bad zone IOT trap Any comments? -- Bernhard Nocker Beware root :-) University of Salzburg's Department of Computing Studies Jakob-Haringerstr. 5 5020 Salzburg Austria, Europe +43-662-8044/6750 bnocker@cosy.sbg.ac.at
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!cosy.sbg.ac.at!news From: bnocker@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Bernhard Nocker) Subject: Re: HiddenWords, sndMucker, and artillery... Message-ID: <BvvKCx.Buy@cosy.sbg.ac.at> Sender: news@cosy.sbg.ac.at Nntp-Posting-Host: puma Organization: University of Salzburg / Austria References: <1992Oct9.004823.213@u.washington.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 22:12:33 GMT Lines: 46