Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!sunswe!hans
From: hans@sunswe.SE (Hans Albertsson Sun Sweden)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: GNU distributions on prep garbled.
Message-ID: <7847@sunswe.SE>
Date: 27 Sep 88 20:52:34 GMT
Reply-To: hans@sunswe.se (Hans J. Albertsson Sun Sweden)
Organization: 7th Floor Country Club
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A friend brought a tape back from MIT, a tar of compressed tar files from
prep, with almost all of the GNU stuff. Unfortunately we're unable to
uncompress anything, since uncompress complains about "corrupt data" after
about 20 - 90 Kbytes of any file. 

I seem to remember something about some problem along these lines,
reported a year ago or so, in this newsgroup.

Could somebody explain, and perhaps even suggest a work-around?