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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!gi101 From: gi101@cus.cam.ac.uk (G. Ioannou) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Warning about ftp.luth.se Date: 8 Sep 1995 19:40:41 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Lines: 13 Message-ID: <42q67p$9sj@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> References: <41tgng$1obk@columba.udac.uu.se> <41vh68$529@reason.cdrom.com> <420ah6$vt@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: gi101@cam.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: grus.cus.cam.ac.uk In article <420ah6$vt@jraynard.demon.co.uk>, James Raynard <james@jraynard.demon.co.uk> wrote: >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!). The same thing happened to me, I've already posted an article about this to a different thread. The CRC error was generated by gzip, not cksum. By the way, xrefresh.1 is incomplete, I think. George.