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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:08:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: using bzip on the xfree86 files
To: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com>
Cc: Terrence Brannon <princepawn AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com> wrote:
> Earnie, could you elaborate on this, please?  What is NS doing with
> downloads?

IIRC, the newest version doesn't have a problem; but, older versions would
download the file in "text mode processing" causing \r\n combinations to return
only \n and ^Z (C-z) to indicate the end of the file.  Binary files have these
as natural data and so the result would be a file that didn't contain all of
the bytes needed.

Regards,


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