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From: bob@ALLOSAUR.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re:  Uncompress
Message-ID: <8803092141.AA12388@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 88 21:41:45 GMT
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For the past week-and-a-half, people have had problems getting stuff
off hosts at MIT.  The most common symptom seems to be that in getting
512,000 byte chunks of X.V11R2, the first byte of the last packet of
the transfer doesn't make it, leaving the aspiring FTP-getter with
511,999 bytes.  Another popular problem is to get the correct number
of bytes, but for the checksum to come out wrong.

People all over the place with several sorts of machines have observed
this problem with expo.lcs.mit.edu, and we may be seeing a similar
problem with prep.ai.mit.edu now, too.  I haven't heard any good
suggestions yet, except to just keep trying until you get a good copy.
Sigh...
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 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
 The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277
 bob@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!bob