Subject: Re: CRC errors with archives from ftp.netbsd.org
To: None <port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG>
From: A.Arnold <arnold@zam331.zam.kfa-juelich.de>
List: port-sun3
Date: 08/16/1996 09:19:38
>> Today, I downloaded the NetBSD-current binaries from ftp.netbsd.org,
>directory
>> pub/NetBSD/arch/sun3/binary. However, I get CRC errors when I try to unzip
>> them. I downloaded them twice, I downloaded them also from a different site
>> that mirrors them, but no help :-( (I checked that I didn't forget the
>> 'binary'!).
>
>I hope that you don't mean by "unzip" any PK-ZIP related tool, but the
>normal tar/GNU-zip stuff. I have never had problems FTPing anything
>from ftp.netbsd.org and its mirrors provided I didn't forget to set
>FTP to binary mode.
No, I meant gunzip, and I get
>arnold@zam331> gunzip base.tar.gz
>
>gunzip: base.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error
>arnold@zam331>
Alfred
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