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Re: Incomplete/corrupted archive.
- From: Michael A Chase <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
- To: John Daniel Doucette <john dot doucette at jjmackay dot ca>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:28:07 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- Subject: Re: Incomplete/corrupted archive.
- References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020422100806.00a0e510@jjmackay.ca>
- Reply-to: Michael A Chase <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:13:50 -0300 John Daniel Doucette <john.doucette@jjmackay.ca> wrote:
> I just downloaded the cygwin package and then tested it with bzip2. It
> reports the following error. I downloaded the single package from
> another
> mirror site, '
> ./ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.nas.nasa.gov%2fmirrors%2fcygwin.com%2fpub%2f' and
> received the same error. Perhaps that package has been corrupted?
How did you download it? If you used a Windows/MSDOS FTP program, it
probably converted every LF it found to CRLF. Binary files don't react
well to that.
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