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Subject: Re: djtar bug
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 13:24:31 GMT
> >
> > [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

... snip ...

Well, as far as I am concerned any software, especially system
software, that aborts itself is exhibiting a bug.  It might simply
announe 'Invalid file format' or something.

It is not serious to me - I was just reporting its existance.

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