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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!gatech!news.byu.edu!ux1!fcom.cc.utah.edu!park.uvcc.edu!ns.novell.com!gateway.novell.com!thisbe.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM!terry From: terry@thisbe.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) Subject: Re: extract says its corrupt, damit! Message-ID: <1992Sep9.172902.22581@gateway.novell.com> Sender: news@gateway.novell.com (NetNews) Nntp-Posting-Host: thisbe.eng.sandy.novell.com Organization: Novell NPD -- Sandy, UT References: <3540@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:29:02 GMT Lines: 31 In article <3540@ra.nrl.navy.mil> solsman@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Mark Solsman) writes: [ ... ] >So I did just that, and now no matter what the hell I do, extract tells me >that etc01.71 and bin01.46 are corrupt. Now, I am using the same disks >are I did before, and I even re-ftp-ed them from my workstation to my PC, >when that didn't work, I even re-ftp-ed them from agate.berkeley to my PC, >When that didn't work, I even ftp-ed them from agate.berkeley to my 386bsd >setup using slip. No matter what I do, these two files etc01.71 & bin01.46 >are corrupt. [ ... ] Most likely, the file containing the checksum values is corrupt. Try downloading that again instead -- it'll probably clear up your problem. The other possibility is the new files are rewritten to bad sectors on you disk. If you dont: mv etc01.71 etc01.71.bad mv bin01.46 bin01.46.bad Then you will never take those sectors out of circulation (this should be done with bad144 at a later time). Terry Lambert terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Disclaimer: Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.