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From: desimone@cse.uta.edu (David DeSimone)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: NetHack 3.0j: file sizes wrong, virus?
Keywords: nethack,virus
Message-ID: <1991May23.053745.17607@cse.uta.edu>
Date: 23 May 91 05:37:45 GMT
References: <1991May22.153246.6351@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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In article <1991May22.153246.6351@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
>	Well, I got all the parts of the NetHack 3.0j post, and un-zoo'd it
>on my PC.  However, both of the .zoo files are 37 bytes bigger than the
>sizes given in the header of the first part, and "sum" reports different
>figures as well.

Do you suppose that the file might have been downloaded with Xmodem or
Ymodem, and that it may have been padded with extra data because of
that?

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