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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!gatech!darwin.sura.net!wupost!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnewsc!cbfsb!att-out!pacbell.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!ninja!ulka.zso.dec.com!alan From: alan@ulka.zso.dec.com (F. Alan Jones) Subject: Re: checksum bad on bin01.56 why? Message-ID: <1992Oct1.205415.24466@ninja.zso.dec.com> Lines: 9 Sender: jones@ulka.zso.dec.com (F. Alan Jones) Nntp-Posting-Host: ulka.zso.dec.com Reply-To: alan@ulka.zso.dec.com (F. Alan Jones) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation References: <1992Sep22.190149.1@max.u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:54:15 GMT I had a similar problem which turned out to be an extra character at the end of the file added by ftp. It might be because of not setting "image" mode. Anyway, see if the size on the ftp server matches the size of the file you have downloaded, and if your downloaded file is one greater, remove the last byte. I used emacs for this (ESC > BS). Alan Jones BTW: We should start a Seattle users group!