Hi !

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Lord Isildur wrote:
> > Yes, most likely you have stored these files on a machine which have
> > a bit-error in bit 1 somewhere in its memory, therefore causing s to
> > become q. This is most likely a PC because they normally don't have
> > parity memory and this won't be detected. The VAXen all have parity
> > memories so it's not likely it is caused there.

Using cheap PC-crap, it could even be the NIC. A friend of mine had trouble
with a Novell network a while ago, and intensive hunting for this revealed the
network adapter flipping bits from time to time. Resulted in destroyed files
occasionally.

...Michael

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