".gz" files

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Fri May 24 22:36:12 2002

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Jerome H. Fine wrote:

> I need some help. Jay West has kindly posted the file
> "rt11freewarev2.iso.gz" at:
> http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/RT-11/freeware-CDS/images/
>
> "rt11freewarev2.iso.gz" is about 171 Mbytes in size. It is my
> understanding that
> the full size file "rt11freewarev2.iso" is exactly 671,088,640 bytes in
> size which
> is the CD for the RT11 Freeware CD produced by Tim Shoppa. However,
> when
> the download of the "rt11freewarev2.iso.gz" file is complete, I end up
> with a file
> that is 687,282,673 bytes which is different in size and can NOT be
> identical to
> the full size (and correct - Tim Shoppa used to have the full size image
> at his
> site and I downloaded it before it was changed to a ".bz2" image) image
> of the
> actual CD.

  An iso file has a certain amount of overhead to it. A 687,282,673 byte
file wouldn't be out of line for a 650M CD.
  I'd try burning it to a CDRW and see if it flies before I got very
worried.

        Doc
Received on Fri May 24 2002 - 22:36:12 BST

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