Re: Bad binaries

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

taob@r-node.io.org (Brian Tao) writes:

>In article <1993Oct15.001119.27360@vicstoy.UUCP>, Austin Phelps writes...
>> I received all the TT samples binscii posts fine, but the archive was bad.
>> I received the microumacs fine, including the archive.
>the parts *except* part 4!  The archive is fine according to nulib, but
>now I realize that its "integrity check" option simply prints out the
>calculated CRC, not if it matches the saved CRC.  :(

nulib, just like GSHK, doesn't do much on "integrity check". To see if
an archive is really OK, you have to unpack it (which is what all the
other packers out there actually do if you ask them to check an
archive).

Soenke
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