>I pulled down gcc from jazz.external.hp.com and when I tried to unpack it on an
>MPE 5.0 machine I get the follwoing problem.

>[132]tar -xovf gnu.tar
>tar: blocksize = 20
>/tmp/Xattributes.0: Unknown file type field value `x'
>tar: checksum error on tape (got 0, expected 268f)

>Any ideas.

Sincere apologies ... I created this version on 5.5 before I knew about the
extensions to tar on 5.5 to preserve MPE file characteristics and that it was
incompatible with 5.0. You can grab the 5.0 version from mercury.orbitsw.com in
/pub.

Regards,


M.