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["Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi James,

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 12:13:31 +1000, James Miller wrote:

> Ron:

> Could your problem be related in any way to file renaming?  When Linux 
> files get 
> saved to DOS/fat16 media, filenames can be butchered.  Most notoriously, 
> the 
> linux file names get procrusteanized to the DOS 8/3 naming convention.  
> Then, 
> caps can get changed to lower case, which will throw Linux for a loop.  
> This is 
> sort of a long shot, since it seems your problems may have other causes.  
> But I 
> thought I'd toss it in anyway, since I've had to rename files for such 
> reasons 
> in the past so that Linux could find and use them.

   No, not a problem in this case. All the file names seem to be in 8/3
format.

   It has turned out that those packages just got scrambled in transit
somewhere.

Regards,
        Ron



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Hi Steven,

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:11:13 +1000, qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Ron Clarke wrote:

>> ALL the packages are listed there, and NONE of them
>> have any files in them.

> That means it found all the packages, but every one of
> them was un-readable.

   You are correct.

>> I have since checked every one of those packages (as
>> in gunzip -t xxx.tgz) and every one without exception
>> got the thumbs down - invalid tgzp magic.

> They are not recognized as gzips.

  You are correct.

>> Don't know why, they were downloaded from legit slakware
>> mirrors, in at least three different sessions, and using
>> Arachne and WizLynx on different days. They were downloaded
>> by, and into, a DOS system.  Then loaded onto an external
>> ZIP drive for transfer into the target machine.

> Somewhere in their travels they were altered in some way.
> What is their current size?  It is possible that at some
> stage, a helpful program (WizLynx?) automatically unzipped
> them for you.  If so, you may be able to fix them simply
> by gzipping them again (the installation routine expects
> compressed packages only).

   The duds do seem to be just a few bytes bigger than they should be
according to the directory listing they came from, but just how this
difference was accomplished remains a mystery.

>> Would that have caused any damage to all but the BL2-02.ZIP ?

> Well, bl2-02.zip was downloaded from a different server and
> it was a zip.  The gzipped packages might have been treated
> differently by your software.  I have heard of this happening
> before, where a package was automatically unzipped but the
> name was not changed (that caused no end of confusion).  So
> look at the size -- that should indicated if it has been
> prematurely unzipped.

   No, I don't think they have been unzipped - the differences are too
small, just a few bytes.

   That is why I posted where and how I got the duds, and where and how
I got the good ones.  In case someone else has the same phenomenon.

   It is now up and running. Or crawling (in the case of icewm).  :)

Regards,
        Ron

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On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 11:43:45PM -0400, Diego Barizo wrote:

> I'm translating BL scripts to spanish, but when I try to gzip the 
> modified baslinux.gz, gzip won't take the -r nor  -recursive options.
> Should I redirect ls to gzip to do it?

Mas o menos, como esto :-)

# gunzip baslinux.gz
# mount -o loop baslinux /mnt
make your changes to the BL filesystem under /mnt
# umount /mnt
# gzip baslinux

By the way, gzip (unlike zip) is a only a compressor, not an 
archiver. For .tar.gz = .tgz, you have to tar and gzip. 

Howard E.
  
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sindi keesan wrote:
> 
> Are there dependencies for ssh?

No. It runs on either BL1 or BL2 (same as xfreecell).

> I get a lot of lag when telnetted to my bbs 
> Would ssh have less lag?  

No, ssh encrypts traffic so it could have more lag
(unless your BBS gives priority to ssh connections
at the expense of telnet connections).

Cheers,
Steven