Re: jar problem

• To: Jordan Alpert <jalpert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: jar problem
• From: Don Murray <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:36:50 -0600

Hi Jordan-

My guess is that it got downloaded in ascii rather than binary mode. 
Did you FTP it directly, or go through the web page?  If directly, try
again and make sure you are in binary mode.  If through the web page,
use the shift click, or right click and "Save as" feature.

Don Murray

Jordan Alpert wrote:
> 
> visad list;
> 
> I am having a problem unpacking the
> visad.jar file (or the  visad_src-2.0.jar).
> I am using Intel Pent II 400mhz, linux/RedHat 6.2,
> and get the following error from jar xvf visad.jar:
> 
> $ jar xvf visad.jar
>    created: META-INF/
> java.io.IOException: LOC header signature bad: 4b500003
>         at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:38)
>         at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java:24)
>         at java.io.IOException.<init>(IOException.java:25)
>         at
> java.util.zip.ZipInputStream.getNextEntry(ZipInputStream.java:55)
>         at kaffe.tools.jar.Jar.extractFilesInJar(Jar.java:700)
>         at kaffe.tools.jar.Jar.processJar(Jar.java:405)
>         at kaffe.tools.jar.Jar.start(Jar.java:60)
>         at kaffe.tools.jar.Jar.main(Jar.java:39)
> 
> and META-INF/ is empty.
> 
> Thanks
> Jordan

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