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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <420ah6$vt@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <41tgng$1obk@columba.udac.uu.se> <41vh68$529@reason.cdrom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.jraynard.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk 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 -- "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for me." [Southern US Congressman]