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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Sindi,

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:10:39 -0400 (EDT)
Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com> wrote:

> It appears that the file itself is corrupted somehow, two different ways.  

   and

> Has anyone else tried doing it with DOS?  You can't expect all linux 
> Newbies to be downloading and unzipping with linux.  I will keep trying 
> with DOS for a while.  I have not yet tried FTP, just kermit and lynx.

FWIW: I also had a few problems with corrupted downloads very early in my 
introduction to BL, when I was downloading with DOS.

  Steven suggested that some of the files (in my case it was .tgz files)
were being added to by the DOS downloader - I was using a version of Lynx for 
DOS.
He was right !  I changed my downloader, and all was fixed.

   Could it be your downloader adding a character or two ?

Regards,
         Ron 

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