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Juan Pineiro wrote:

> Actually, I got that prompt twice. First right after uncompressing the perl.tar.Z
> file, later during the install.
>
> It could very well be that I am not FTPing the file into the 3000 as a bytestream
> file.
> I tried FTPing with WisperFTP,Reflection file transfer and WRQ FTP as binary. I'm
> not sure there is an option in any of these products to specify type "bytestream".
> And our firewall security does not allow me to open a connection to your FTP server
> directly from FTP.arpa on the  HP.  I also tried turning the file into bytstream
> with
> tobyte.hpbin.sys - but this resulted in a message that the file was corrupted.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Here'e what I get when I  try to uncompress the file.
> <DEV> PUB.APACHE:XEQ TAR.HPBIN.SYS 'xvfopz /tmp/perl.tar.Z INSTALL '
> x INSTALL, 4912 bytes, 10 tape blocks
> 225 blocks
> 5 blocks (compressed)
>
> If you want to go on, type device/file name when ready
> <cr>
> If you want to go on, type device/file name when ready
> <cr>
> If you want to go on, type device/file name when ready
> <cr>
> If you want to go on, type device/file name when ready
>
> here's a LISTFILE of my /tmp directory (minus those V*.* files):
>
>  PATH= /tmp/
>
>  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----  FILENAME
>          SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX
>
>            1B  BA        4912 2147483647   1      256  1  *  INSTALL
>            1B  BA         353 2147483647   1      256  1  *  archout.2424883
>            1B  BA         518 2147483647   1      256  1  *  archout.4915274
>          128W  VB         192     204800   1      208  1  8  perl.tar.Z
>            1B  BA       49344 2147483647   1      208  1  *  perl2.tar.Z
>          128W  VB         192     204800   1      208  1  8  perl3.tar.Z
>            1B  BA       49344 2147483647   1      208  1  *  perl4.tar.Z
>          128W  VB         192        192   1      208  1  3  perl6.tar.Z
>          128W  VB         192     204800   1      208  1  8  perl7.tar.Z
>
> here's a LISTFILE of /PERL/PUB/
>
>  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----  FILENAME
>          SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX
>
>            1B  BA        4912 2147483647   1      256  1  *  INSTALL
>           80B  FA         155        504  32      160  2  *  LIBSHP3K
>  NMPRG   128W  FB         320       6539   1      512  2  *  PERL
>            1B  BA       11906   16384000   1      256  1  *  README
>
> shell/iX> ls -ls
> total 237
>   10 -rwxr-xr-x   1 MGR.APACHE        PERL        4912 Nov 19  1998 INSTALL
>   13 -rwxr-x---   1 MGR.APACHE        PERL        6400 Oct 29 16:27 INSTALL2
>    5 -rwxr-x---   1 MGR.APACHE        PERL        2560 Oct 29 16:35 INSTALL3
>   25 -rwxr-xr-x   1 MGR.APACHE        PERL       12400 Apr  8  1999 LIBSHP3K
>  160 -rwxr-x---   1 MGR.APACHE        PERL       81920 Oct 29 15:30 PERL
>   24 -rw-r--r--   1 MGR.APACHE        PERL       11906 Apr  7  1999 README
> shell/iX>
>
> A good ole MPE store tape is looking really good right about now.
>
> :)
>
> Thanks Again.
> Juan