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> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:08:40 -0800 (PST)
> From: alex AT unicorn DOT us DOT com (Alex Matulich)
> 
> I just tried extracting the contents of these two files:
> 
> ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/dif272b.zip
> ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/dif272d.zip
> 
> Neither of them can be opened by winzip or the DOS unzip command.
> I tried downloading them repeatedly, from the URLs above and from
> another mirror (ftp.bu.edu).  Unzip reported missing bytes in all
> cases, but oddly the number of bytes missing appears different
> depending on the host site.

I cannot reproduce this.  I've just downloaded dif272b.zip, and it is
in perfect order.

Sorry for asking the obvious, but you did use binary transfer to
download the files, yes?