On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:21:49 -0400 (EDT) 
 "Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com> wrote:

 > 	gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
 > 	tar: child returned status 1
 > 
 > 	You would think I am getting bad downloads, but:

don't worry about this... this is due to how GNU tar handles compressed
volumes.  Basically, there's a race condition where the tar can exit before
the gzip does, thus causing the error.

It's not harmful, just annoying.

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