heh, sounds like an intel ethernet interface. they were doing stupid 
stuff to me too, and i threw them out and replaced them with tulip cards 
i found in the supply cabinet.. :) 


On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Michael Kukat wrote:

> 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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