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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Warning about ftp.luth.se
Date: 30 Aug 1995 00:14:30 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD box
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In article <41vh68$529@reason.cdrom.com>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>peterh@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se (Peter Haegglund) wrote:
>>Be wary if you're gonna download FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE from
>>the archive.
>>It seems like a file in the FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE bin distribution is faulty. 
>
>I've heard this from several people but the files there all check out
>just fine.  I've md5 checksumed and verified the whole collection, I've
>installed from it personally and I've run a tar verify on the files even
>just now - it all checks out!

Interesting. It's not the most critical file, but the X11 manpages .tgz
file on src.doc.ic.ac.uk will only extract as far as xrefresh.1 and then
gives up. I thought it was a problem with the floppy I had put it on, but
I FTP'd it again and it failed in exactly the same place (and yes I did 
use binary mode!).

James
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