From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@syncretize.net>
To: "'Alexander Gottwald'" <Alexander.Gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
CC: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Corrupted file x2x-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:42:27 +1000
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald
> Sent: Saturday, 13 July 2002 5:04 AM
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Corrupted file x2x-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2
>
>
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:
>
> > In the directory release/XFree86/x2x/, the file
> x2x-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2 has
> > the correct md5sum (being
> 87075ba00b0cd15f35975c956f14591a); but running
> > bzip2 -tv gives a "file ends unexpectedly" error message,
> and attempting to
> > run bzip2 -dv fails.
>
> Have you downloaded it via ftp? The please check you fetched
> it in binary
> and not ascii mode.
If he'd downloaded in ascii ftp mode the md5 would not match.
Rob