using bzip on the xfree86 files

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Wed Jul 26 10:14:00 GMT 2000


--- Terrence Brannon <princepawn@yahoo.com> wrote:
> bzip -d filename.tar.bz has always worked for me. But
> with the xfree86 archives, they have a .bz2 extension
> but it appears that bzip and bzip2 are the same
> program, sothis should not pose a problem.
> 
> However, when I attempt to bunzip the archive I
> receive  
> a data integrity error when decompressing.
> 
> Could anyone suggest why this might be?
> 

Did you use the Netscape Browser to download this file?  Use ftp instead.

Cheers,

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