From: "Florian Xaver" <dos DOT fire AT aon DOT at>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/devsup/drdos/
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 12:50:07 +0200
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> I am sorry to report that Charles is correct.
>
>I just D/Led and tested each of the "kernel only" zip files.
>They seem to be fine....(on the surface that-is)
>Each zip file contains command.com, both boot files and a copy of sys.com
>Further inspection reveals that all of those files are corrupted.
>So, the zip files seem to have been uploaded correctly to the ftp site.
>But, the files within the zip files must have been corrupted before
>being zipped.
>
>I'll send a CC of this to Lineo.

Super!! Good idea!

Bye, Florian


>_______________
>
>To whom it may concern at Lineo......
>
> Please, if you would so kind as to fix the files in this directory of
>your ftp site.
>ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/devsup/drdos/
>
>You might be surprised at how many of us "DOS junkies" out here would LOVE
>to have a copy of these old versions of DR-DOS and Novell-DOS.
>
> Thank you very much for your time and consideration.
>
>________________
>
>On Sat, 27 May 2000 12:09:02 -0600, Charles Dye wrote:
>
>> At 11:57 PM 5/26/00 -0500, Glenn McCorkle <glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com>
>> wrote:
>>>  In case you didn't know...
>>> All of the old versions of DR-DOS (including the kernel files for 6.0),
>>> are still available for D/L from Lineo.
>
>> Er, no.  Still available for download are corrupted and useless copies of
>> old versions.  It looks like somebody FTP'd them in ASCII mode instead of
>> binary.  Lineo still hasn't caught on -- somebody is asleep at the
switch.
>
>> raster AT highfiber DOT com
>
>--
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>