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Just to verify this. Hope Orest Zborowski or someone else who can sort this
out.

Quote:>Hi, I tried to decompress xf86-1.3-bin#1.tar.gz, xf86-1.3-bin#2.tar.gz

I thought I would post an article here before there are too many
people complaining about corrupted files. The XFree86-1.3 files are
not corrupted.

You need to do a

   cat xf86-1.3-bin#1.tar.gz xf86-1.3-bin#2.tar.gz > xf86-1.3-bin.tar.gz

And then work on xf86-1.3-bin.tar.gz. Similarly for the
xf86-1.3-xfn#?.tar.gz files.

Delman.
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   Just to verify this. Hope Orest Zborowski or someone else who can sort this
   out.

   >Hi, I tried to decompress xf86-1.3-bin#1.tar.gz, xf86-1.3-bin#2.tar.gz
                              "corrupted"           "unexpected EOF"
   For rest of them:
      font1 : unexpected EOF too
      PEX   : corrupted
      PROG  : forgot

Sigh.  It's too bad there's so many people that obviously have better
things to do with their lives than read the README.  I guess it's not
like it has a descriptive filename or anything.
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loveritablessencentipedependentalism+      Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
andaterrificklengtherealityearguessy|      Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR

   Hi, I tried to decompress xf86-1.3-bin#1.tar.gz, xf86-1.3-bin#2.tar.gz
   using gzip version 1.2.1 and 1.1.1. To my surprise xf86-1.3-bin#1.tar.gz
   gives 'unexpected end of file error'.  xf86-1.3-bin#2.tar.gz gives
   'not in gzip format'. I don't know whether these files are corrupted
   or not. But, the other files were decompressed without any problem.
   If anybody can solve this problem, I appreciate his help. Thanks in
   advance.

Be sure to remember that the portions of XFree86 that have been
split into two parts (with #1 or #2 in the filename) are two
pieces of one archive and not separate archives as one might
suspect from the names.  Be sure to concatenate the pieces
together before extracting the files from them.

For example, obtain the two parts of the binary archives and then
use:

cat xf86-1.3-bin#1.tar.gz xf86-1.3-bin#2.tar.gz >xf86-1.3-bin.tar.gz
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"Bipedalism--an unrecognized disease affecting over 99% of the population.
Symptoms include lack of traffic sense, slow rate of travel, and the
classic, easily recognized behavior known as walking."

     For the benefit of those installing from 3.5' floppies, the two
biggest packages, bin and xfn, are broken into two parts, each smaller
than 1.44Mb.  To recreate the original single package, concatenate the
two parts together.

Read that?  Means do this:
cat xf86-1.3-bin#1.tar.gz xf86-1.3-bin#2.tar.gz >xf86-1.3-bin.tar.gz
and the same for the fonts.  It works because I did it right and it works
great.

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Quote:>Sigh.  It's too bad there's so many people that obviously have better
>things to do with their lives than read the README.  I guess it's not
>like it has a descriptive filename or anything.

The names were chosen to try and be descriptive, yet short, and still
remain unique when put on a minix filesystem.

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Orest Zborowski (Zorst)

   Every time I do this I get these problems. Maybe next time I won't bother
   breaking the pieces apart, so people can solve it their own way. It's
   discriminatory against 5.25" floppy users anyway.

   The names were chosen to try and be descriptive, yet short, and still
   remain unique when put on a minix filesystem.

I think what is most misleading is that the pieces still have the
'.tar.gz' suffix, which implies that each piece is a complete
.tar.gz archive in itself.  Perhaps leaving off the .tar.gz
suffix of the split pieces and including a simple shell script to
automatically concatenate them would help.  Another somewhat more
difficult possibility is to actually pack the files into two
separate .tar.gz files that can be unpacked individually rather
than splitting a single .tar.gz file.

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"Bipedalism--an unrecognized disease affecting over 99% of the population.
Symptoms include lack of traffic sense, slow rate of travel, and the
classic, easily recognized behavior known as walking."

% cat xf86-1.3-bin#?.tgz  >xf86-1.3-bin.tgz
% tar zxvf xf86-1.3-bin.tgz

Do the same with the xfn#[12] files...

[I was confused myself..  Note to whoever uploaded
 the binaries: try using the ".split" convention
 next time for split files...]

Ezrec Oberon Nebarb

Dorfal Sequence: The electrochemically encoded stored stimuli that the
        post-primates on the third planet of Sol call "reality". Of
        course, they have yet to activate the Debug feature.....

cat xf86-1.3-bin#1.tar.gz xf86-1.3-bin#2.tar.gz | gunzip | tar xvf -

They are not two but one gzip-file!

;-) prefect

Yes

I didn't have any problem.
At the top of the distribution directory, is a file called README.
I read it, something to do while waiting for the rest of the package
to download ;-)

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