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RE: extract.exe.bz2
- To: 'Richard Elkins' <richard dot elkins at citicorp dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: RE: extract.exe.bz2
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-scm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 22:49:24 +0200
- Cc: elk_88 at yahoo dot com
Hi Richard,
sounds like you accidentially downloaded ascii instead of binary,
so check that file sizes match exactly!
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Elkins [SMTP:richard.elkins@citicorp.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 22:38
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc: elk_88@yahoo.com
> Subject: extract.exe.bz2
> Importance: High
>
> I have installed Cygwin on a Windows NT SP6b system and have no
> problems. I downloaded all of the Cygnus/Xfree86 components from
> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/. The execution of
>
> bunzip2 extract.exe.bz2
>
> reports
>
> "bzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing.
> Input file = extract.exe.bz2, output file = extract.exe
>
> It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
> You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.
>
> You can use the `bzip2recover' program to *attempt* to recover
> data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.
>
> bzip2: Deleting output file extract.exe, if it exists."
>
> Running bzip2recover doesn't help.
>
> I have tried to no avail to find extract.exe on your site and also thru
> FTP search on the internet for a Cygnus file (found some for FreeBSD and
> Darwin but not x86/Cygnus). I have also tried to find the source file
> (guess: extract.c).
>
> I have tried several of your mirrors with the same result.
>
> Your link to source code on the above-referenced web page leads one to
> two files: Readme and md5.sum but no source files.
>
> Please help. Thank you in advance.
>
> -Richard
>
>
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