From: David Levine <levinedl@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 21:16:29 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Added note about cpio failing to unpack an nmh tarball.
X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/commitdiff_plain/3a86e04e4c7947ea045b849d081502b772182128

Added note about cpio failing to unpack an nmh tarball.
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 3c482943..8d317e0a 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ need an ANSI C compiler such as gcc.
    docs/README.developers, since there is other developer-friendly
    advice there as well.)
 
+   If you have obtained nmh in the form of a tar archive and are
+   trying to unpack it with cpio:  due to an apparent bug in cpio, it
+   might fail with "Malformed number" error messages.  Try another
+   tool to unpack, such as tar or pax.
+
 1) From the top-level source directory, run the command
 
    ./configure [options]