From: kmathias@afit.af.mil (Karl S Mathias) Subject: Re: SLS x-series and Gzip *IMPORTANT* Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 17:00:24 GMT
ajt@doc.ic.ac.uk (Tony Travis) writes:
>Ben Cox (thoth@uiuc.edu) wrote:
>: greg@halcyon.com (greg naber) writes:
>: >The SLS x-series is bad news!! I have tried gzip-0.7, gzip-1.0.3 and the
>: >dos version of gzip. ALl report crc errors!
>: I don't think the SLS x-series is at fault; I didn't have any problem
>: with them.
>I can confrim that, Ben. I've just downloaded the latest SLS from the
>tsx-11 mirror at src.doc.ic.ac.uk and I'm using X on my new ET4000 Ultra
>card now! I gave up trying to add support for the Oak VGA - too hard ;-)
I had similar problems with crc errors. It appears to be some sort of
network reliability problem - I had to download some of the packages
several times before getting a copy that was not corrupt. Trying a
mirror site that is closer might help to relieve the problem.
Capt Karl Mathias kmathias@afit.af.mil
Graduate Student, Air Force Institute of Technology
"Opinions expressed are my own and not those of the U.S. Air Force"