".gz" files

From: Carlos Murillo <carlos_murillo_at_epm.net.co>
Date: Sat May 25 09:41:29 2002

At 11:26 PM 5/24/02 -0400, you 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
-snip-
>I am using Windows 98 SE/Netscape 4.78 and the normal WinZip in case
>that

therein lies the problem.
 
I've had this problem with netscape for large downloads. Something
gets out of sync. Use wget instead for downloading, and gzip for
decompressing; they're both available for win32. Contact me off the
list if you want win32 command line executables.

Regards,

carlos.

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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Sat May 25 2002 - 09:41:29 BST

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