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From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Corruption in BIN01.56?
Date: 1 Oct 92 11:36:21 GMT
Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
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Message-ID: <veit.717939381@du9ds3>
References: <adam.717861382@marsh>
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In <adam.717861382@marsh> adam@cs.curtin.edu.au (Adam Sawyer) writes:


>Has anyone else had problems when trying to extract the BIN01.(1-56) 
>distribution?

>When I go to extract the files (after mread b:*.* /tmp) for all 56 BIN01.X
>files, I am always getting the error :

>Corruption in BIN01.56

>And I've already b) recopied the file onto a new disk
>                 c) re-ftped the file from kirk.bu.oz.au
>                 d) (re-ftped ensuring that I was in BINARY mode)
>                 d) re-ftped from agate.berkeley.edu


>And now I'm lost for ideas, its only this one last file *sigh*


>Adam!

This question appears on-and-on again. It should get into the FAQ.

Check whether the bin01.56 file (the last one) has exactly 227717 bytes.
You had to copy this to a MSDOS disk. Some DOS COPYs like to append 
CTRL-Z and other nasty stuff to a file, which of course modifies the checksum
and the size.

Check whether the Manifest file is corrupt. This file contains the checksums
for the distribution. Get a new one from a site which has the whole bin tree
unpacked (e.g. agate.berkeley.edu). If this still fails, do the necessary
things manually:
	cd /tmp (provided you have the distribution files in /tmp)
	cat bin01.* | uncompress | cpio -idalmu
	sh /tmp/install.bin01

If cpio fails shortly before the end with "invalid data" or so, bin01.56 is
indeed defective. If it does not fail, you have just repeated what extract
does.

Hope that helps

Holger

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