[nhc-bugs] Unzipping Problems

[Malcolm Wallace]

> I'm getting errors when I try to unzip nhc 1.14. Is there really
> something wrong or am I just being incompetent?

First, check that the ftp download was correct.  If the sizes don't
match, then either the process was truncated early, or it was in
ASCII mode rather than binary.

    6202862  nhc98src-1.14.tar.gz
    5296472  nhc98-1.14-ix86-Linux.tar.gz

> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated

Then check is it GNU tar?  Does a simple gzip -d on the file work ok?

Regards,
    Malcolm