Re: Hash values of downloaded files

2016-11-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: @Andrea: I don't know where to find this text part. Have you found it in the meantime? Ah, I see now. Brian's example of an ambiguous sentence was from your mail (where you repeated the process using your own words), not from the website. Well, at this point I think we'll have

Re: Hash values of downloaded files

2016-11-27 Thread Marcus
Am 11/27/2016 04:22 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Patricia Shanahan wrote: Can you suggest an alternative wording that would be clearer? I think we could change the problematic wording reported by Brian "[c]ompare it with the value of the downloaded hash file" into "[c]ompare it with the

Re: Hash values of downloaded files

2016-11-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: Can you suggest an alternative wording that would be clearer? I think we could change the problematic wording reported by Brian "[c]ompare it with the value of the downloaded hash file" into "[c]ompare it with the content of the downloaded hash file" I also suspect

Re: Hash values of downloaded files

2016-11-26 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 11/26/2016 4:22 AM, Brian Barker wrote: ... As I explained, the user quite properly derived the hash value of the installation file. He then - understandably but wrongly - performed the same process to derive the hash value *of* the hash file - instead of inspecting the value provided in that

Re: Hash values of downloaded files

2016-11-26 Thread Marcus
Am 11/26/2016 01:22 PM, schrieb Brian Barker: At 22:44 24/11/2016 +0100, Marcus Noname wrote: Am 11/24/2016 10:25 PM, schrieb Brian Barker: I've been hearing from a intending user of OpenOffice who was repeatedly finding the hashes on his downloads did not match. He (I think he was a "he") had

Re: Hash values of downloaded files

2016-11-26 Thread Brian Barker
At 22:44 24/11/2016 +0100, Marcus Noname wrote: Am 11/24/2016 10:25 PM, schrieb Brian Barker: I've been hearing from a intending user of OpenOffice who was repeatedly finding the hashes on his downloads did not match. He (I think he was a "he") had repeatedly downloaded form different mirrors