>Hmm. "tar tzvf base.tgz" works fine on the server, and it passes the
>MD5 checksum. Perhaps an error was introduced in downloading? I don't
>know of any programs to generate checksums on the Mac, but you could
>at least check that the size is correct. Here are the sizes:
>
>-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd       198 May 10 05:46 BSDSUM
>-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd       268 May 10 05:46 CKSUM
>-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd       468 May 10 05:46 MD5
>-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd       199 May 10 05:46 SYSVSUM
>-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd  17364296 May 10 05:39 base.tgz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd  14340039 May 10 05:43 comp.tgz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd    120981 May 10 05:43 etc.tgz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd   2919808 May 10 05:43 games.tgz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd   1107876 May 10 05:24 kern-GENERIC.tgz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd   1106637 May 10 05:24 kern-GENERICSBC.tgz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd   6779797 May 10 05:45 man.tgz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd   2341082 May 10 05:46 misc.tgz
>-rw-rw-r--  1 fredb  netbsd   1580141 May 10 05:46 text.tgz
>
>Frederick

Sorry there Frederick, the base.tgz file that I put on my cd was a 
copy that didn't fully download, I found a copy that did download 
fully and I'll try that.  Thanks for the help.
-- 
Randy Beaudreault

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but better to be lucky" - Det. Frank Pembleton
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