Re: problems with 0.7.12 source tarballs


Subject: Re: problems with 0.7.12 source tarballs
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 26 2000 - 15:29:51 CST


On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:35:30PM +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had problems with 0.7.12 source tarballs available at download section.
> Each .tar.gz is padded with zeros to the length that has a factor of 256.
> This leads to tar reporting error when unpacking it, and also leads to
> inability to open that .tar.gz with Midnight Commander (and thus gmc and very
> likely Konqerror and kfm).
>
> Just curious, what software created them.

This was created like so:

tar cz abi/ > abi.tar.gz

and so on. I can recreate them in a bit.

Thanks
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