> I solved the problem and want to thank Allan Briggs for the help and the 
> solution goes to jeffl@melb.arc.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au, thanks.

> Do not use MacGUNZIP, avail. at umich, wuarchive, etc.  It does an ASCII
> translation of the kernel file, and though it checks out to be the right
> size, it will not work. 

Both of the Mac standalone ports of gzip support binary mode.
Tim Murphy's console-interface port always works this way;
The recent Mac-interface port has an ascii/binary toggle
that enables/disables conversion of line endings.

> Maybe we could .cpt the kernel too?

That would make it larger _and_ use a proprietary Mac-only format.



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