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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!eff!news.duke.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why ftp installtation can corrupt files? Date: 6 Aug 1995 15:02:55 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 10 Message-ID: <402liv$7qv@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3vrm3m$jj@overload.lbl.gov> <DCtxFu.4p9@ips.cs.tu-bs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <DCtxFu.4p9@ips.cs.tu-bs.de>, Martin Butkus <y0001415@ws.rz.tu-bs.de> wrote: >As far as I know all the files in the distribution are checked by the >installation procedure (by calculating checksums on them). Besides, all the >files in the distribution are gzipped so that corruption would probably lead to >errors while *extracting* the files. In 2.0.5 and later, at least, no such checking is done. Jordan