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From: u906400@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Roger Scott)
Subject: Re: Corrupt 386bsd files
Message-ID: <u906400.711419185@bruny>
Keywords: 386BSD binary corrupt
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Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1992 00:26:25 GMT
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u906400@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Roger Scott) writes:

>Has anybody else had trouble with bin01.16 and bin01.37?  I have three
>copies from two different sources (kirk.bu.oz.au & gatekeeper.dec.com) and
>extract complains about them all being corrupt.

I appear to have some sort of drive problems which newfs doesn't pick up.
I had to rename the original copies on the HD so I could place the files
on a different physical part of the disk.  It appears to be going now,
although I'm not sure what's going to happen when I hit the bad spots
again.

Roger.