RE: Corrupted file x2x-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Thomas,

I've uploaded the src tarball.  It should be on mirrors within 24 hours.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Thomas Chadwick
> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 10:06 AM
> To: huntharo@msu.edu
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Corrupted file x2x-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2
>
>
> Strange...  I could have sworn that I did exactly what you describe
> (right-click followed by Save-As) to test the tarbals when I originally
> posted them, and they turned out just fine.  However, I re-tried
> that just
> now and I'm seeing the problem.  Classic ASCII vs. binary transfer snafu.
>
> Since I don't have access to an FTP server, I'll have to send
> them as email
> attachments (off-list).
>
> Thanks.
>
> >From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu>
> >To: "Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo@hotmail.com>
> >CC: "cygx" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> >Subject: RE: Corrupted file x2x-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2
> >Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:46:28 -0400
> >
> >Thomas,
> >
> >Well, looks like I get to throw this one right back at you.
> >
> >I right-clicked on the link at:
> >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00393.html
> >
> >and chose save as... blah blah.
> >
> >I did this in both IE and Mozilla 1.0.  The result is that the browser
> >thinks that the file is an HTML file (both of them thought this).  I
> >corrected the extensions in both browsers, but the resulting download was
> >16719 bytes both times.
> >
> >I would prefer that you either find some ftp space to store this
> files at,
> >or email them to me (not to the list) directly.
> >
> >Harold
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Thomas Chadwick [mailto:j_tetazoo@hotmail.com]
> > > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 9:27 AM
> > > To: huntharo@msu.edu
> > > Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > > Subject: RE: Corrupted file x2x-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2
> > >
> > >
> > > Harold,
> > >
> > > I need you assitance in fixing this problem.  Can you please
> re-upload
> >to
> > > sources.redhat.com the tarball located here?
> > >
> > > http://members.tripod.com/tomandlaura0/cygwin/release/x2x/x2x-1.27
> > > -1-src.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > The problem is that the file up on sources.redhat.com (and all
> > > the mirrors)
> > > is 16719 Bytes.  The file at the above location is 16720 Bytes,
> > > which is the
> > > correct size.  Don't know what happened to that 1 Byte.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > >From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@syncretize.net>
> > > >To: "'Alexander Gottwald'"
> ><Alexander.Gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
> > > >CC: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> > > >Subject: RE: Corrupted file x2x-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2
> > > >Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:42:27 +1000
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> > > > > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Alexander
> >Gottwald
> > > > > Sent: Saturday, 13 July 2002 5:04 AM
> > > > > Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > > > > Subject: Re: Corrupted file x2x-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > In the directory release/XFree86/x2x/, the file
> > > > > x2x-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2 has
> > > > > > the correct md5sum (being
> > > > > 87075ba00b0cd15f35975c956f14591a); but running
> > > > > > bzip2 -tv gives a "file ends unexpectedly" error message,
> > > > > and attempting to
> > > > > > run bzip2 -dv fails.
> > > > >
> > > > > Have you downloaded it via ftp? The please check you fetched
> > > > > it in binary
> > > > > and not ascii mode.
> > > >
> > > >If he'd downloaded in ascii ftp mode the md5 would not match.
> > > >
> > > >Rob
> > >
> > >
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