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Re: GCC 2.5.7 tar problem

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From: Jim Cincotta
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 14:39
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Tim Liddelow (tim@jaguar.catt.citri.edu.au) wrote:
: Upon extracting the latest version of gcc:

: [lots of lines deleted]
: rw-rw-rw-9225/11     32 Dec 12 22:47 1993 gcc-2.5.7/version.c
: r--r--r--5200/11   9567 Oct  2 09:10 1993 gcc-2.5.7/vmsconfig.com
: r--r--r--31088/11  12026 May 15 07:38 1993 gcc-2.5.7/xcoffout.c
: r--r--r--31088/11   7122 Oct  9 09:11 1993 gcc-2.5.7/xcoffout.h
: rw-rw-rw-5281/11   1839 Jan 26 11:24 1993 gcc-2.5.7/.gdbinit
: tar: read error: unexpected EOF

: I am sure I grabbed the file gcc-2.5.7.tar.gz correctly (from archie.au) in binary mode 
: via ftp.

: Has anyone else had problems ?

We had the same problem here, regardless of where we picked gcc 2.5.7 from.
However, it appears that all the files are correctly extracted from the 
archive, since the resulting source compiles without error and installs.
Hope I'm right!

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