Bzip2 and GCC

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 23, 2000, Frank Sommer <Frank.Sommer@ccs-munich.de> wrote:

> As you make the GCC releases available in bzip2 format,
> could you please ensure they can be decompressed ?

We do.  In fact, I've decompressed from the .tar.bz2 myself.

> Decompression leads to a 'file corrupted' message.
> Platform is Win/NT, binary bzip2 V0.9.5d downloaded from
> sourceware.cygnus.com.

Could it be that you somehow saved the file in ASCII mode, so that LFs
were expanded to CR+LF, or bzip2 is reading the .bz2 file in text
mode?

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