I seem to recall that patches need to be in Fixed record format to unpack.

ftp>get NSTGDK3A  NSTGDK3A;rec=128,,f,binary

:LISTF nstgdk3a.p@,2
TUE, OCT  3, 2006,  9:45 AM

ACCOUNT=  KEVENM      GROUP=  PATCH6B

FILENAME  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----
                   SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX

NSTGDK3A  STORE   128W  FB       68693      68693   1    68704 69  *


Worth a try.
Keven

Larry Simonsen wrote:
> I'm trying to download a patch for 6.0.  the patch is named NSTGDK3A i can 
> ftp connect to ftp.itrc.hp.com and change directories to mpe-ix_patches 
> and then to c.60.00.  i find the file for the patch and download it in 
> binary format but when i unpackp the file i get errors.
> 
> here is the listf and the errors
> ACCOUNT=  SYS         GROUP=  INSTALL 
>  
> FILENAME  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----
>                   SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX
>  
> NSTGDK3A          128W  VB       23426     204800   1    23808 15  8
>  
>  

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