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bad decode table

A common problem when transferring from Windows with FTP is forgetting to set "bin" mode.

That screws up the data and you don't get what you expected.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
From: bill@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: OSR 5.06
Message-ID: <G1I3IE.y7@wjv.com> 
References: <39BEE86A.8D17E3E0@adptx.com>
<39CF0A25.B1B245E0@yahoo.com>
<20000925050016.62173@tegan.com>
<39D02970.89E8CA42@yahoo.com> 
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:39:49 GMT

In article <39D02970.89E8CA42@yahoo.com>,
Agnelo de la Crotche  <agnelo.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:

Tom Parsons wrote [the poster clipped the attrib here]

>> An identified message followed by more unidentified messages doesn't
>> tell anyone very much.  Post the specific messages (exactly) and your
>> post would be informative.
>> --
>> ==========================================================================
>>  Tom Parsons            tom@tegan.com
>> ==========================================================================

You originally commented on something about a bad script.

>OK, here's the story as detailled as possible :

>While 'Setting file permissions...' , the following error occures and
>displays the message : 

>-- Compress : Error : Bad decode table

Bad decode table.  So the file is not being uncompressed and the
files aren't being extracted.  The long list of warnings such
as these:

>
>Then a quite long list of warnings generated respectively by chmod,
>chown and chgrp trying to access a bunch of files :
>
>-- chmod : WARNING : cannot access
>/hdFS/opt/K/SCO/SoftMgr/1.0.2b/custom/custom.tlib : No such file or
>directory

No such file or directory - because the bad decode table mean that
the the file was not extracted.

>These files are in the CPIO archiv /opt/archives/VOL.000.003. I could
>read its content (under Windows with Visual PAX) without problem. I also
>extracted the first file 'custom.lib.Z' and ungziped it successfully. 
>But I cannot figure out how I would do it manually for the whoole
>installation.  

Windows!  Are you sure you didn't corrupt something in a transfer.

>I tried making a copy of the 5.06 installation CD and installed
>from the copy. I had to try anyway, even if it was obvious that
>such a trick would not work. I got the same error and the same
>failed installation.

I wouldn't say that 'it was obvious that such a trick would not
work'.   Perhaps there is a problem on the original CD.


-- 
Bill Vermillion -   bv @ wjv . com

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