On Sunday 28 February 2010, paul rogers wrote: >Sunday afternoon, using WinXP's ftp client
You may want to try it with a real ftp client, that one isn't. From my admittedly limited experience, its borked, thinks binary files are text & helpfully translates them to winders style line endings. Back in NT-3.51 days, the winderz support staff I had to interface with, considered the ftp protocol to be nothing but a piracy aid, and wouldn't give me a straight answer to anything about it. That was about 15 years ago, and I doubt their attitude has changed much. The one copy of XP I ever had, I tried the ftp client once, and it failed, so I had to assume that as always, the m$ version was good only for .doc & text files. YMMV of course. >I downloaded everything from > 7.5's everything/* using mget. All the files are corrupt, using "tar > -tjvf ..." in some cases after showing the first file in the archive. The > md5sums for several I spot checked didn't match either. In same session I > successfully downloaded Firefox & Thunderbird source tarballs within > Firefox browser, so some things worked. Are you using some special > version of gzip/bzip2, or something special for an ftp client? <br> ><br> ><br>[email protected] ><br>TANSTAAFL (There ain't no such thing as a free lunch) ><br>Not responsible for anything after this line. > -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I have also been a huge Unix fan ever since I realized that SCO was not Unix. -- Dennis Baker _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
