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- From: murray@rocky.raleigh.ibm.com (Charlie Murray)
- Subject: Re: simibm.zip corrupted?
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.150500.13029@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:05:00 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.002734.1258@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <Z3uVVB1w165w@msgpad.uucp> <1992Dec18.051821.28387@uwasa.fi>
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- In article <1992Dec18.051821.28387@uwasa.fi>, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
- |> In article <Z3uVVB1w165w@msgpad.uucp> gabe@msgpad.uucp (Gabe Helou) writes:
- |> >w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen) writes:
- |> >> Tony Roder <TONY@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> writes:
- |> >> >In the past week, every copy of simibm.zip I have ftp'd from oak has
- |> >> >failed the crc check when I have attempted to unzip it. I know that
- |> :
- |> >> Yes, your PKUNZIP is outdated. Most recent files on SIMTEL20 require
- |> >> PKZUNIP ver 1.10, which has been available for over two years.
- |> >
- |> >Sounds more like he's been doing ASCII transfers instead of BINARY.
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- ASCII versus BINARY does not matter for ftp. I just ftp'ed /unix using ascii
- and binary, and then did a cksum and sum. The files were identical. The
- ascii transfer just took longer. I don't know if this is specifc to AIX,
- but I doubt it.
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