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Date:	Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:47:37 -0300
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From:	John Daniel Doucette <john DOT doucette AT jjmackay DOT ca>
Subject:	Fwd: Re: Incomplete/corrupted archive.
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>Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:02:09 -0300
>To: Michael A Chase <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
>From: John Daniel Doucette <john DOT doucette AT jjmackay DOT ca>
>Subject: Re: Incomplete/corrupted archive.
>
>I always use cycgwin's setup.exe (currently 2.194.2.24) to download the 
>packages to a local directory.  Since I'm a bit paranoid  I then run "find 
>. -name "*.bz2" -exec bzip2 -t -v {} \;" in the setup directory to test 
>the packages. (From my currently installed cygwin of course) This is the 
>first time I ever got a bad package downloaded.  All of the rest check out 
>fine.
>
>
>At 2002-04-22 Monday 09:28 -07004, you wrote:
>>On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:13:50 -0300 John Daniel Doucette 
>><john DOT doucette AT jjmackay DOT 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.
>>--
>>Mac :})
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