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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
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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.