OH MY GOD, thank you ALLL SOOOOOOO MUCH. I am soooo relieved! I'm soo 
excited right now i can't even think. Can anyone give me step by step 
instructions on how to fix the files, i am scared of messing them up again 
that i don't want to ruin them. thank you so so so so much. (i can't believe 
i uploaded them in ascii mode, super d'oh!)
-rian


>From: Thomas Bieg <tomsbsd03@t-email.de>
>To: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
>CC: yo _ <exhausted01@hotmail.com>, netbsd-help@netbsd.org
>Subject: Re: URGENT GZIP HELP NEEDED
>Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:14:13 +0200
>
>Herb Peyerl wrote:
>>Lets not forget that there are quite a number of binary files and other 
>>binary objects in tarballs, some of which might contain
>>the sequence "0x0d0a" but where those occurences are not intended
>>to represent a carriage return or linefeed in a piece of text.
>>
>>I would say the originator has well and truly hosed himself.
>
>I don't think so.
>
>If the original conversion was stupid enough to replace all those
>0x0a with 0x0d0a (wich means 0x0d0a becomes 0x0d0d0a) then you can
>reverse it just fine.
>
>Tom
>

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