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[Andy Ashbaugh <andy AT andyashbaugh.com>]

Hey folks:
    I hope everyone's not too sick of me, because I have another issue 
that I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on. I was trying to 
install the GUI for BL2 and following the straight forward instructions 
on 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/bl2/bas-x.htm. 
Running installpkg worked fine for the first six packages (all 
downloaded from the Slackware 7.1 mirror). On the special BL package, 
however, I get this error read-out:

gzip: bl2-x.tgz: not in gzip format

gzip: bl2-x.tgz: not in gzip format
expr: syntax error

expr: syntax error

    At first I thought maybe I got this error because I hadn't 
uncompressed the archive at all after the download. So I went back to my 
primary box, uncompressed the bl2-x.tgz -> bl2-x.tar and tried again. I 
get the same error.
    Later, I found that whenever I tried to install ANY of the packages 
at James' or JP's site I got this same error. Is there a reason that 
installpkg recognizes the archives I get from Slackware and not from BL 
sites? Could my browser (Mozilla 1.7 on an XP box) be saving them 
incorrectly? Any suggestions to help correct this problem?

Andy