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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> got a segmentation fault.   
> I had to power off and on again.  
> I tried to reboot back into BL2.
> It took about five tries on this computer to get 
>   past the 'Not an image file' message 
> now occurs more than half the time on this computer 

Clearly there is a hardware problem with that computer.

> I needed to find some way to fix BL2 

Don't worry about BL2.  Fix (or discard) that computer.

> I suggest using not linux unzip but pkunzip on the latest 
> bl3-32fd.zip file.  

There's nothing wrong with the Linux unzip.  
It works fine on bl3-32fd.zip.

> I had assumed linux unzip would work 

It does.

> Steven, can you 'unzip' bl3-32fd.zip with linux unzip 
> in BL2?  

Yes.  It works fine.  BL2 is what I use all the time.

> I would replace the computer but it is the fastest one that will 
> take our four 64MB SIMMs.

Don't let that stop you.  The sporadic hardware fault is
causing you far more grief than a slightly slower system
would.  

Cheers,
Steven

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