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Re: setup 2.427 runtime error


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Max Bowsher wrote:



David A. Cobb wrote:



I downloaded the .tar.bz2 file, which is probably meant to be the
source. However, bunzip2 says it is not a (valid) bzip2 file.
In my experience, this is often caused by the server passing an
incorrect MIME type from which the http download module of my browser
(Mozilla Firefox) infers incorrectly that the file is text.


It *is* the source. Mozilla 1.7.2 handles it correctly.

Server headers:
[snip]

I suspect Firefox may have unhelpfully un-bzip2ed it dynamically, but not
removed the .bz2 suffix.



Firefox doesn't do this, but the mirror itself may have.
Igor


Seems a strange thing to do -- that would INCREASE the size of the download. How can I tell? Assume it's a tar and try untar'ing it I guess.

I tried viewing it with Xemacs to see if there is any interesting magic numbers at the beginning. That says "[i\226.... has size -9767899064 -- corrupted". I'll pull down another copy and see what happens.

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