On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 06:59:21PM +0000, Juergen Fenn wrote: > > Are you sure all transfers happend in binary mode? Note that some ftp > > clients start in ASCII mode as default, so archives thend to break... > > This idea has been mentioned rather often, in some personal messages too. > I have downloaded the file using Netscape 4.73, as usual. NN never > produced any problems on my system when using it for downloads. Besides > Netscape there are Internet Explorer 5.5 and StarOffice 5.2 available on > my system. As I have to work with Windows, would you suggest to repeat > download with one of those clients instead? Are there any particular > options I have to choose?
[I would suggest generally using 'wget' for downloads from the net. Should be available for Windows, too.] Apart from that, you have plenty hints that the archive is indeed corrupted. As all others who tried the archive did not mention problems, so a new download, possibly after deleting all traces of the previous one, sounds like a promising approach. Andre' -- André Pönitz .............................................. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
