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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I transferred lots of .gz files via plip and the copy was identical,
including about 170M temp.tgz (the entire contents of my hard drive in one
file).  It is fs.img that won't transfer via plip, or llpro.

Steven says there is something wrong with my zipper.  Should I try making 
fs.img into a .gz instead of a .zip file next?  Then using plip followed 
by gunzip?  

I used pkunzip to unzip the downloaded bl3.zip file and it worked okay so 
I assumed it would work if I also used it on a zip file that matched the 
original, but it did not.  Steven, what did you use to zip bl3 in teh 
first place - DOS pkzip or something else?


On Wed, 5 May 2004, Hal MacArgle wrote:

> On 05-04, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> > 
> > I still have not found a way to transfer fs.img.  Laplink pro produces 
> > something with a different md5sum number.  If I zip the file first with 
> > PKZIP the transferred zip file has the same md5sum number.  But when I 
> > unzip it again at the other end the number for fs.img does not match.
> > 
> > I transferred via plip and the numbers still don't match.
> > 
> 
>       I just renamed a 1.3mB tar.gz file to test.gz and transferred
> it via ethernet10, ftp, to another machine.. md5sum same on both files..
> 
>       On other machine renamed same file as test2.gz and
> transferred it back to the original machine; md5sum reporting the
> same.. Used 'cmp' to compare test.gz and test2.gz - exact match...
> 
>       Of course this Linux to Linux which may not prove anything
> for you except that it does work. <grin> Did I mis-read the problem?
> 
>     Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0   (2.4.20)
>            
>            Anyone can pile complexity upon complexity;
>                   only a genius can truly simplify..
> .
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