A .zip file puts the directory at the end, so corruption makes it unusable.
A .tgz file go until it hits the corruption point.
Curt.
On 7/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Curtis!
>
> Thanks for your answer; that sonnds reasonable (when YOU say so :-) ).
> I thought before, a corrupt .tgz-file would be completely unuseable.
> I will forward this to the dff-forum. Thanks!
>
> Ciao,
> Adrian
>
>
> ----- Original Nachricht ----
> Von: Curtis Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> An: FlightGear user discussions <
> flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Datum: 24.07.2007 23:58
> Betreff: Re: [Flightgear-users] Scenery tiles missing?
>
> > If you aren't having a problem with the downloaded files, but other
> people
> > are, to me that points to a download problem. These files are often
> very
> > large and some people seem to have ftp/download tools that corrupt the
> > data. If they can get me an md5sum from their downloaded .tgz file,
> then I
> > could run md5sum on the same file at the server side and make sure there
> is
> > a match. I strongly suspect the check sums will be different if they
> are
> > having a problem unrolling the whole thing.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Curt.
> >
> >
> > On 7/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > More or less a Yes-No-Question, which I promised to ask:
> > > A few weeks ago I downloaded some scenery-chunks (e10n40, e00n40, and
> > > others), and everything above
> > > n48 or n47 was missing (even after downloading them again). Someone at
> > the
> > > german FG-forum
> > > seems to have the same problem now,
> > > so my question is:
> > > When there is work on only tiles going on, will the whole chunk be
> > > unavailable to be downloaded,
> > > or are only these tiles being removed from the chunk temporarily?!?
> > > I downloaded some chunks mentioned above an hour ago, and now
> everything
> > > is complete;
> > > So for me no problem, but at the forum, there is still this someone
> > > quizzing about his missing
> > > middle-Europe-Scenery, and I couldnt find any answer yet, except the
> one
> > > that these parts were not
> > > on the server, which was vigorously denied by other forum-members.
> > > ??????????
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Adrian
> > >
> > >
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