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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: checksum bad on bin01.56 why? Date: 23 Sep 1992 12:58:06 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <19ppkuINNp6j@disaster.Germany.EU.net> References: <1992Sep22.190149.1@max.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net In article <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? Is there any chance of a bad sector being in that file and you try to overwrite it time and time again ? Have you tried moving the corrupt file to another name (bin01.56.corrupt) and THEN downloading the file again ? -Bernard -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV