Re: Help downloading 6.0.1 installer

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <4tmjjg$8dk@darla.visi.com>,
Nathan Mates <nathan@mixer.visi.com> wrote:
>In article <4tm7l5$2ln@nyx10.cs.du.edu>,
>Will Baguhn <wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:
>>I've found that when GSHK reports an archive to be corrupt, Shrinkit
>>can usually handle it OK.  (:: is this a bug in GSHK?  Nathan Mates?
>>Your next challenge, perhaps? ::) 
>
>   A few weeks ago, someone reported that the HCGS .bxy files on
>ftp.support.apple.com caused their GSHK to crash and/or generally
>misbehave. What do I do? I download it for myself and try it out.
>Can't replicate it. Can't replicate it at all under any circumstances.
>What do I do? Recommend a 6.0.1 and GSHK reinstall.
>
>   Lots of other people have also reported some flakiness over the
>past few weeks, usually without making sure it happens twice in a row,
>or even 1/5 of the time. What can I do? Save them to an expanding pile
>of unrepeatable reports and hope that one day I notice a common
>thread that I can hunt down.
>
>   Not to disparage any of those who've reported things recently, but
>it helps to be real specific (e.g. someone can point to a file and
>say 'GSHK pukes on _this_ file, but Shrinkit 3.4 does fine', I can
>try investigating it. 
>
>   I need to be able to see misbehavior from a bug before I can hunt
>it down, conclusively determine the fault, and conclusively fix it.
>Without hard evidence of misbehavior right in front of my eyes, 
>debugging is like reading War and Peace to spot the comma that's out
>of place somewhere in the text. Being able to narrow it down to
>a chapter or page is a HUGE help.
>
>Nathan Mate
>

You want Binsciis of files that it chokes on?  You got 'em.  Give me
a day or so to hunt through my collection.  :)

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