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  From: David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  To  : Sam Silvester <sam@quadlink.pineview.net>
  Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:27:00 +0930 (CST)

Re: Tar/Gzip error

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Sam Silvester wrote:
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated

This means that the compressed file was damaged, and could not be
uncompressed past that point.

> tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file

Which explains why tar saw an unexpected end of file.

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