newbie help--gz file corrupted?

[mike]

ah yes, that was the trick.,  duh.  i just now noticed that windows command
line ftp even warned me that i was in ascii mode and tranfer may have had
problems!  thx!



On 12/29/05, Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:03:10PM -0800, mike wrote:
> > hey all, i can't work my way around linux very well, so i want to make
> sure
> > i'm not doing anythign wrong here.  i'm simply trying to unzip a file
> > called:
> >
> > something.tar.gz
> >
> > i'm typing:
> >
> > gunzip something.tar.gz
> >
> > and i get the following error:
> >
> > invalid compressed data--crc error
> > invalid compressed data--length error
> >
> > this file is a HIGHLY downloaded file that's been around for a while,
> and
> > it's only 54K.  seems unlikely that it's corrupted...
> >
> > if it matters, i download it first with a windows machine and ftp it
> over to
> > my linux machine...
> >
> > thx!
>
> Windoze is known to change things while downloading it.  For instance,
> it might have downloaded it in text mode and interpreted some of the
> bytes as newlines that had to be converted.  Or it might have
> gunzipped it during the download but not changed the filename.  The
> way to see what the file really is, is to
>
> file something.tar.gz
>
> If it thinks it's really a plain tar file, then just rename it to
> something.tar and carry on.
>
> If it thinks it's a gzipped file then it's probably corrupted.
>
> If you download it again with Windoze, make sure you do a binary
> download, not ascii.  Or better yet, if you have the URL, either
> http://mumble/path/to/something.tar.gz, or
> ftp://mumble/path/to/something.tar.gz, you can very easily download it
> in linux:
>
> wget ftp://mumble/path/to/something.tar.gz
>
> If I missed some other possibilities, let us know.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
> robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
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