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From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: checksum bad on bin01.56 why?
Date: 23 Sep 92 06:51:17 GMT
Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
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Message-ID: <veit.717231077@du9ds3>
References: <1992Sep22.190149.1@max.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de

In <1992Sep22.190149.1@max.u.washington.edu> anything@max.u.washington.edu writes:

>I have a problem, whenever I try to run extract on bin01 it tells me that
>bin01.56 is corrupt. so i tried dcksum to check it against MANIFEST and sure
>enough its checksum didn't match, I did this with versions downloaded from
>agate, wuarchive, and uky. is there a problem I am not aware of with the
>distribution?
>help!

>Don Levinson
>anything@max.u.washington.edu

Is bin01.56 exactly 227717 bytes in size?
Or is your MANIFEST file corrupt? Try to get "different" versions of this.
My own working line in MANIFEST for bin01.56 reads:
658514098 227717 bin01.56

Holger
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