From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 27 14:46:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA25026 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:46:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from attila.stevens-tech.edu (root@attila.stevens-tech.edu [155.246.14.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA25021 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:46:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wweng@attila.stevens-tech.edu) Received: from attila.stevens-tech.edu (attila.stevens-tech.edu [155.246.14.11]) by attila.stevens-tech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.3.1) with SMTP id RAA06294 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 17:46:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 17:46:11 -0500 (EST) From: Wei Weng To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: file download ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Isn't the ftp default mode binary mode? If it is not, use ncftp which supports command history and has some more friendly commands. And I think the default mode is binary mode. I used it all the time Wei Weng wweng@stevens-tech.edu /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// The one who is darker than the dawn, the one redder than the blood / stream, buried in the stream of time, under your name, I hereby swear / by the darkness, to the things who are foolishly in our way, By the / power of you and I, bestow upon them destruction equaly, DRAGU_SLAVE!!/ /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Andrew wrote: > Did you change to binary mode to download the file? > > Andrew Perry > > > > > Dear Sir > > I am a FreeBSD 2.2.1 user. > > I downloaded the netscape file: > > navigator-v404-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz . > > And I unpacked it by: gzip -dc navigator-v404-export. > > x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz |tar -xvf - . > > > > But I got these messages: > > gzip:navigator-v404-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz > > :unexpected end of file > > tar: unexpected EOF on archive file > > > > Therefore , the file I downloaded might have a problem. > > So I downloaded it again. > > But when I used ncftp2 to download this file again,I > > got a message "file existed" even after I removed the > > file navigator-v404-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz > > by using the command "rv" and "ls" to check it has been removed. > > What's wrong with it? > > What should I do to download this file again? > > > > Thanks for your help > > Happy new year > > > > Gordon > > > > >