[plug] BitchX help

[John Summerfield]

> > 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

Daniel
Did you look for an rpm?
ftp://ftp.falsehope.com/pub/BitchX/BitchX-75p3-4.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.falsehope.com/pub/BitchX/BitchX-75p3-4.src.rpm

> > 
> > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
> > tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file
> > tar: child returned status 1
> 
> 2 possibilities come to mind:
> 
> 1) When you downloaded the .tgz file (by ftp?) you forgot to set
>    binary mode (rather than ascii).

All the popular ftp clients (ftp, ncftp, wget, perl, netscape) I've seen 
recently default to binary.

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John Summerfield
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