[pptp-server] PoPToP v1.0.1 and PoPToP v1.1.2

[Cowles, Steve]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles C. Duffy [mailto:cduffy at ecst.csuchico.edu]
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 10:51 PM
> To: pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> Subject: Re: [pptp-server] PoPToP v1.0.1 and PoPToP v1.1.2
> 
> 
> You downloaded it with Netscape, right?

No... Internet Explorer 5.5. 

> 
> Netscape sometimes gunzips downloads without telling you -- resulting
> in, at minimum, the first of those behaviours. Annoying, no?

> 
> Consider using wget or lftp.

Hmm... The wget actually worked. Odd that I have never had to use this
command before... I download gzipped tarballs all the time using IE5 without
any problems what so ever.

Steve Cowles

> 
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:49:51PM -0500, Cowles, Steve wrote:
> > I downloaded PopTop 1.1.2 from the WEB site listed below. 
> > When I went to extract the tarball using...
> > 
> > tar -xzvf pptpd-1.1.2.tar.gz
> > 
> > I got the following message 
> > 
> > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> > tar: Child returned status 1
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> > 
> > Using "tar -xvf pptpd-1.1.2.tar.gz" worked OK though. 
> > Although I did get an error at the end of the extraction
> > process.
> > 
> > ....
> > ....
> > pptpd-1.1.2/html/HOWTO-PoPToP.txt
> > tar: Only read 1988 bytes from archive pptpd-1.1.2.tar.gz
> > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> > 
> > I was able to compile/install PopTop OK though even with 
> > the above error.
> > 
> > Is anyone else seeing this behavior? 
> > 
> > Steve Cowles