On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Pollywog wrote:
> I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list but they no longer > seem to work and I don't know why. > I can access these via the web just not with apt. > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian unstable contrib main non-free Possibly strange characters got into sources.list. Shows up in joe. A fellow debian user pointed this out to me. It may have happened because of an abort in my case, but could be from a power-out or similar disruption.