> After (ftp) downloading a .gz file and running gunzip on it I get the error:
> invalid compressed data--crc error
>
the linux ftp client is probably in ascii-mode. set it to "bin" and
everything should be fine.
or is your filesystem just full?
Neither. I did point out that I'd used "bin" mode :)
Anyway, it turns out to have been caused by a disk problem:
It was *disk*. Linux kernel 2.0.36 provoked a known bug in the E/IDE
CMD640B controller - caused random file corruption. This would've occured
whichever Linux distribution you used (dselect kept segfaulting and dying
with assert failures all over).
A buddy of mine found it....awesome piece of Sherlock Holmes work.....
Kevin Smith
TNT/APX Engineering
Lucent Technologies
http://www.lucent.com/ins/