Fwd: Re: Incomplete/corrupted archive.

[John Daniel Doucette <john dot doucette at jjmackay dot ca>]

>Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:28:07 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
>From: Michael A Chase <mchase@ix.netcom.com>
>Subject:  Re: Incomplete/corrupted archive.
>To: John Daniel Doucette <john.doucette@jjmackay.ca>, cygwin@cygwin.com
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>Reply-To: Michael A Chase <mchase@ix.netcom.com>
>
>On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:13:50 -0300 John Daniel Doucette 
><john.doucette@jjmackay.ca> wrote:
>
> > I just downloaded the cygwin package and then tested it with bzip2.  It
> > reports the following error.  I downloaded the single package from
> > another
> > mirror site, '
> > ./ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.nas.nasa.gov%2fmirrors%2fcygwin.com%2fpub%2f' and
> > received the same error.  Perhaps that package has been corrupted?
>
>How did you download it?  If you used a Windows/MSDOS FTP program, it
>probably converted every LF it found to CRLF.  Binary files don't react
>well to that.
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