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> From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 13:24:31 GMT
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> [1] c:\dnld\scratch\blah>djtar \stds\aarm.doc.gz
> --- !!Directory checksum error!! ---
> Abort!
> Exiting due to signal SIGABRT

I don't think this is a bug: as far as I get from its name,
aarm.doc.gz is not an archive, but simply a Gzip'ped aarm.doc file.
You should use gunzip to unzip it, and then to use whatever program is
needed to read it.

DJTAR is not a replacement of Gzip.  It's a program to unpack file
archives, either compressed or uncompressed.  It uncompresses the
file you feed it, and then expects to see either a tar structure or a
PKZip-style zip archive.  If the file you give it ends with a .zip,
it assumes it's a zip archive; otherwise it tries to unpack it as a
tar archive.  If there's no valid tar structure, it bails out.  Which
it did in this case.

Only if aarm.doc.gz is a compressed archive would this qualify as a
bug.