gpearson at iinet.net.au wrote: > > I'm trying to install BitchX on my shell account. here's wat happens, any > ideas? > > bash-2.03$ tar -zxvf BitchX-75p3-FreeBSD-3.x-i386.tgz > BitchX > > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated > tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file > tar: child returned status 1 Sounds like a corrupted file.