From: greg@halcyon.com (greg naber) Subject: Re: SLS x-series and Gzip *IMPORTANT* Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 14:27:38 GMT
kmathias@afit.af.mil (Karl S Mathias) writes:
>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.
It's about time I layed this to rest, I got the files very early the day
they were released, I called Peter voice and explained the problem, he
checked into it and then re-did the whole series. In looking at a list
of files before and after, it was obviuos that the original transfer was
done in ascii mode;) The files are o.k. now.