Hi Laurent,
I guess that Netscape doesn't know how to retrieve 'rip files and use the text mode by default. IE5 seems to download it the right way. If you want to retrieve it from REBOL console, you should better use 'binary mode : >> write/binary %mysql-099.rip read/binary >http://rebol.softinnov.org/mysql/mysql-099.rip HTH, -DocKimbel Laurent Giroud wrote: [...] > Hello all, > > I know I should post this to softinnov but since this is not the first time I > get an error of this kind with archives I thought it might be a generic problem : > > I downloaded (via netscape) the mysql-xxx.rip archive and tried to decompress it > from the rebol console but got a checksum error : > > >> do %mysql-xxx.rip > Checksum failed 5024666 15166388 > > I had the same problem after downloading the library.rip archive from > http://www.reboltech.com/library/library.rip : > > >> do %library.rip > Checksum failed 12557224 15077350 > > however installing the archive from the desktop (using the wwr) > did not exhibit the problem. > This led me to think that Netscape was causing the problem by not preserving the > file content but downloading the archive via rebol via : > > >> write %mysql-099.rip read http://rebol.softinnov.org/mysql/mysql-099.rip > > gave the same result... > So Netscape is not guilty and I'm sitting there wondering what kind of gremlin > is currently playing with my machine :) > > Did any other people here have the same problem with archives or am I doing > something wrong ? > > Many thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Laurent -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
