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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, James Miller wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> > No, my downloaded file is bad, not your original posted one.
> > I don't have a way to check md5sum in DOS - is there one?
> > I should look at the file size anyway, later today.
> 
> A Google search for md5sum, further restricted by the term dos, produces
> alot of results that look relevant.  I'm pretty sure I've used a DOS
> version at some point in the past.
> 
> James

I will find a DOS md5sum program later and see what it says about the file 
downloaded via kermit direct-dial.  In the meantime, the DOS ftp from 
Redhat wget download unzipped properly and I am online with BL3 floppy.

The hard part was getting two good 1.44 floppy disks.  Apparently they get 
tarnished or something while sitting around.  A first format showed 9-80K 
bad sectors.  A second format showed all good sectors except on the disk 
with 130K bad.  The second format was done on a different computer but 
scandisk on this one confirmed all good (and it worked for BL3 image 
file).  So now we can repair a few more floppy disks and make several 
copies and hope one works on the laptop, where DOS ppp won't work.

Sindi