Re: Problems installing Geomview

[Phillip Calvin <mudpuppy at gibbs.oit.unc.edu>]

On Thu, 6 Jan 1994 mbp at geom.umn.edu wrote:

> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 14:08:24 -0600
> From:mbp at geom.umn.edu
> To: mudpuppy at gibbs.oit.unc.edu
> Cc: software@geom.umn.edu
> Subject: Problems installing Geomview
> 
> 
> > I am trying to install geomview on my SGI and I am running into a 
> > tape blocksize error when the tar command gets to the file
> > Geomview/modules/sgi/transformer.  I've downloaded the whole thing twice
> 
> Hmm.  I haven't seen this before.  Exactly which distribution file did
> you download (geomview-sgi.tar.Z, I presume?), 
Yes that's the one.
>and exactly what size
I deleted the Z file already, but the tar file is 11,961,746 bytes.
> does it have on your system after downloading?  Did you use "binary"
> mode to transfer it?
Pretty sure I did.  I always give the binary command.  I surely wouldn't
have missed this twice.

> 
> --Mark
> 

I'll try again perhaps.  

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