Question : Problem using smitty install_all on a *.32 file

I'm pretty new to AIX 5.3 and I have to install a program update on our AIX server sent my our vendor anyway. The file on the CD they sent to me are not tar files they are *.32 files... When I try to install the images donig to the following
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smitty install_all I get the following error ... 0503-003
Please note I have tried to copy these files to the inst.images directory set the permission to RWX and tried to rename the file to drop the *.32 extension but nothing works...please help

Answer : Problem using smitty install_all on a *.32 file

I think that is nonsense. ftp'ing it non-binary would insert a carriage return character at each linefeed, thus corrupting the file completely. But you can try ...

I just had another idea -
There is a weak chance that it could be a gzip'ed file. Do you have gzip/gunzip installed?
If yes, you could rename the file from file123.32 to file123.gz , issue 'gunzip file123.gz' and see if it works without an error message.
If so, issue 'file file123' again and examine the result.

If you don't have gunzip, get it here -

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/download.html

Click 'Alphabetically ..', locate 'gzip', click 'RPM' to download, transfer to AIX and issue 'rpm -i  gzip-1.2.4a-10.aix5.2.ppc.rpm' in the directory containing the downloaded file. gzip/gunzip will then be in /usr/bin.

As I said, a weak chance, all the more because your vendor didn't mention gunzip.