> > > Did you put you ftp client to binary mode before download ?
> > yes of course! whole netbsd 1.5 sources i have downloaded fine.
> > just asking because i found while downloading filesizes always end with
> > 500 or 000 (decimal!)
> 
> Well, I don't think it's a problem then. Maybe it's a side effect of gzip ?
it is NOT a problem - just i want to know why