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From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Toal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: ftp & newcastle
Message-ID: <10384@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 19 May 91 14:20:05 GMT
References: <1991May17.173257.28868@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
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In article <1991May17.173257.28868@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s871985@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Scott Peucker) writes:
>Well...Everything I have recently obtained from Newcastle, or ftp'd has refused
>to de-arc itself once I have downloaded it...I seem to continually get
>"Bad header in file xxx" (from both Sparkplug i and II)...
>Any Ideas why this could be?
>Is it the link to my site ?
>Help would be appreciated, It is frustrating haveing alot of applications I
>cannot get at!!!

I found this with a recent download - it seems Albert is in the process of
converting all the Sparked files into .tar.Z.uu files!  I wholeheartedly
support this. I was getting scunnered with incompatible arc formats too;
now I can extract the bits I want (like the ghostscript sources alone :-) )
before I download at 1200Bd...

Graham
(I *am* a bit surprised the change wasn't announced though...)