Re: Damaged Files

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <370et3$4u0@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Gary Sutton <cvotter@prairienet.org> wrote:
>I am having a problem with many files that I have downloaded
>from ccso.caltech.edu.  When I try to unshrink them with GSHK,
>they are shown as damaged.  Could someone perhaps email me
>undamaged copies of the following files?

   It's either 'cco.caltech.edu' or 'ccosun.caltech.edu'. But, as to
your question, did you remember to download the files in BINARY mode?
Ftp usually defaults to ascii mode, which can corrupt compressed files
in the middle of downloading them. From a standard text ftp (gooey
ftp'ers are never consistent) sesion, before you download files,
type 'binary' and hit return. That'll force ftp to transfer the
files without mangling the contents.

   Once they're on your unix box, remember to download them to your
computer as binary files all the way also.

   I tested a few of the files you thought were bad with unix nulib,
and they all passed just fine.

Nathan Mates
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