On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Ale Terlevich wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, P D Johnson wrote:
> 
> > I have just downloaded the x11base.* set. I now want to transfer them to
> > 1.44Mb DOS discs to take home with me. The problem is the files are about
> > 4k > 1,457,664 bytes in size which is what I can fit on a disc and what is
> 
>   A quick look at the FTP site shows...
> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 ftpadm   ftp      1457663 Oct 28 21:59 x11base.00
> ......
> 
>   You did download them as binary didn't you?  (bin command in ftp)

I guess you may be using factory formatted discs.  I had problems with
these once, for some reason I had some which are a few bytes short.  The
answer is simple, reformat them yourself!

Ben.

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Ben Strawson                                            b.strawson@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Department of Computer Science
University College London           http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/students/b.strawson
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