On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Wayne Richardson wrote:

> I can download these packages from the internet from my windows '95
> machine and then transfer them to the Linux system using a diskette. 

> When I try to run dpkg on these files I get errors. 

Are you *certain* that you are transferring them in BINARY mode?

Do you have your floppy drive mounted so that it does automatic *nix<->DOS
conversion?  (It shouldn't.)

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