Re: can't open 0.10.40 tarball of gettext

[Paul Eggert]

> From: prapp <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 10:09:29 -0500
> 
> Yesterday I found that "tar -tzf ..." failed partway
> through the gettext 0.10.40 tarball

I don't observe this problem.  Here's a transcript.

$ wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.10.40.tar.gz
--11:37:41--  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.10.40.tar.gz
           => `gettext-0.10.40.tar.gz'
Resolving proxy... done.
Connecting to proxy[192.54.239.9]:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1,352,976 [application/x-tar]

100%[====================================>] 1,352,976    109.72K/s    ETA 00:00

11:37:55 (109.72 KB/s) - `gettext-0.10.40.tar.gz' saved [1352976/1352976]

$ gtar tzf gettext-0.10.40.tar.gz
gettext-0.10.40/
gettext-0.10.40/djgpp/
gettext-0.10.40/djgpp/Makefile.maint
...
gettext-0.10.40/tests/test.mo
gettext-0.10.40/tests/xg-test1.ok.po
$ gtar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
$ gunzip --version
gunzip 1.3.2
(2001-11-03)
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation
Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of this program
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
Compilation options:
DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H HAVE_MEMORY_H HAVE_STRING_H HAVE_LSTAT 
Written by Jean-loup Gailly.