Regarding my problem with the scenery tar file --- I think it is a
cygwin bug with gzip.
I transferred the file to a dual boot machine with Linux Red Hat and was
able to quickly and easily decompress the files once I renamed the file
extensions to .tar.tgz (downloading the .tgz files to my Windows
renamed the original file to a .tar from .tgz)
It was an unexpected problem since I had no previous problems untarring
other scenery tiles through WinZip. So far the files I have had
problems with are ones around w120n30, such as w120n50, etc. Maybe it
depends on who built the scenes, on what platform they used and how they
compressed the files.
Thanks.
Stacie
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 23:23:57 +0200
From: Frederic Bouvier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mountainous areas
To: FlightGear developers discussions
<[email protected]>
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Did you download this file in binary mode ? The basic windows ftp client
is in ascii when started and corrupt binary files with line endings
conversion.
-Fred
Corrubia, Stacie K wrote :
>I have been trying to build some scenery over some pretty mountainous
>areas in California (w117n35) using SRTM 1 arcsec data. I end up with
>some very strange looking scenery with HUGE cliffs.
>
>I wanted to compare the FG base scenery from the downloads but when I
>tried to unpack the data ended up with the following error: Under
>cygwin: gunzip < w120n30.tgz | tar xvf -
> w120n30/
> w120n30/w116n30/
> w120n30/w116n30/1056256.btg.gz
> w120n30/w116n30/1056256.stg
> w120n30/w116n30/1056258.btg.gz
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
>
> gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data --format violated
>
>
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