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Re: FW: Filesize of serveral packages does not correspond to thement ione d size in the Packages file



On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Otto Wyss wrote:

> > > From: Nils Lohner [SMTP:lohner@ecf.teradyne.com]
> > > >
> > >
> > > Can you please stop sending this long notice to the lists?  It's bad
> > > netiquette and people don't want to have to retrieve more mail than
> > > necessary, esp. on dialup lines.
> > >
> > 
> > - NOTICE -
> > 
> Sorry, I'm not used to the "cultur" of my new employer. Unfortunatly I
> haven't found out how to stop it in Outlook :-( (maybe never). Anyway
> I'm not going to use my business account here.
> 
> Actually I did download these packages with Netscape but it never
> occured to me that "Save as..." did a dos-conversion. Besides does
> anyone know how to prevent Netscape from doing it.
> 
> What amazes me I also did use rsync on all of these file and I definitly
> know it processed cfengin since I used options -avvP. Why didn't rsync
> correct it?

You ran rsync/cygwin from Windoze? That defaults to textmode in various weird
auto-misdetected cases. "set CYGWIN=binmode" before running rsync.


Regards,
  Anne Bezemer



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