From: Cave Newt (roe2@ellis.uchicago.edu)
Date: 06/27/92


Subject: Re: Unarj.tar.Z from banjo (AGAIN!)
From: roe2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Cave Newt)
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 04:34:27 GMT

bjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William A Jones) writes:

>Well, once again, on June 27 at 10:30pm EST, I obtained the unarj.tar.Z
>file from banjo.concert.net. I used binary transfer mode. In fact,
>I obtained two copies of it typing "bin" before each transfer. THE
>FILE IS STILL CORRUPT. It is not compressed, it is not tarred, it
>is not zipped. I wish someone would either fix it or get it the hell
>off of the archive.

I can confirm this. There are two extra bytes before the compress(1)
magic number, and even after removing them, the rest of the file is
garbage (uncompress was up to 4.5MB and 10 Sparc CPU seconds when I
killed it).

Greg Roelofs