Incomplete/corrupted archive.

[Michael A Chase]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:13:50 -0300 John Daniel Doucette <john.doucette@jjmackay.ca> wrote:

> I just downloaded the cygwin package and then tested it with bzip2.  It 
> reports the following error.  I downloaded the single package from
> another 
> mirror site, ' 
> ./ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.nas.nasa.gov%2fmirrors%2fcygwin.com%2fpub%2f' and 
> received the same error.  Perhaps that package has been corrupted?

How did you download it?  If you used a Windows/MSDOS FTP program, it
probably converted every LF it found to CRLF.  Binary files don't react
well to that.
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