On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> I've been attempting to run SETI@home on -current. Has anyone else
> found that both setiathome-1.1.i386-unknown-freebsd4.0 and
> setiathome-1.2.i386-unknown-freebsd3.2 fail with the following
> message after downloading a work unit:
>
> Scanning data file
> Error reading data: -23
> Bad file header
>
> The same work unit works with setiathome-1.3.i386-unknown-freebsd2.2.8.
You are working through a proxy? Versions prior to 1.3 didn't deal well
with some proxies. I don't know the details, but some proxies re-write data
in a form that Seti@home won't deal with.
David
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