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From: frain@cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain)
Subject: Re: Sys7 from ftp.apple.com corrupted!
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Date: Fri, 17 May 91 08:25:36 GMT
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In article <16287@helios.TAMU.EDU> mkh6317@zeus.tamu.edu writes:
>I think it is pretty clear that at some point the FDHD images from
>ftp.apple.com became damaged.  I've found some garbage deep in
>install-1, and can find no apparent visible damage to install-2
>however it also fails under a crc error.   I believe that ftp.apple.com
>crashed for a time around 3 to 4 am early Thursday.  Perhaps that is
>when the damaged occurred.  I got my copy after that time.
>
>Is anyone having trouble un-binhexing the 800 k disk images?

I've un-binhexed all of the 800K (well, I'm in the middle of ftp'ing
the last one now, but I've un-binhexed all of the others), images
without error.

I noticed the "fdhd.images" on ftp.apple.com was not readable by
anyone when I connected.

  --Jerry

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