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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Corruption in BIN01.56?
Message-ID: <1992Oct1.155515.12254@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
References: <adam.717861382@marsh>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 15:55:15 GMT
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In article <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*
This problem is popping up too much. It seems that the MANIFEST file has
been corrupted. This is the file which "install" users to check for
corruption. Since you are the fourth person to report a "corrupted"
bin01.56, I suspect that the site you got the "MANIFEST" file from has a
corrupted copy. Please notify them so that they can take corrective action.
NB: There is a rare chance that, in your case, you are rewriting the same
bad sectors with the file. This would be the case if you are running a drive
without bad sector forwarding and didn't "mv bin01.56 bad.file.1" before
downloading. Otherwise, the same file is likely to get the same sectors.
In any case, there is at least one corrupt "MANIFEST" file out there, in m
opinion, and archive administrators should check for it. Since a lot of
us *know* the agate distribution works, I would suggest checking against
that one.
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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