On Wednesday 08 October 2003 14:26, Martin Carmichael wrote:

> Hello,
> I downloaded the firebird 1.0 distribution for HP-UX.
> I would like to install and build it.
> Unfortunately, I cannot extract the .tar archive:
>
> tar -xvf ./FirebirdCS-1.0.0.821-HP1020.tar.gz .
> directory checksum error
>
> can someone help me? Do I have to extract source file on a Linux machine?
>

I just did a very quick check and I found that WinZip can open the .tar.gz
file without trouble. Either HP-UX 10 can't handle the file format (in which
case Linux or something like WinZip on Win32 will be able to) or you have a
corrupted file.


Paul
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