Re: Can't unzip kernel 2.2.14
Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:13:32AM -0700, Matheson wrote:
> > I keep downloading the kernel source (2.2.14) off of kernel.org (slink
[...]
> Sounds like you don't really have the entire file downloaded. You should
> really use an ftp client such as ncftp and lftp,
And make sure the transfer is made in binary mode. Ordinary ftp has a
tendacy to download in ascii mode which means it tries to convert the
newline character depending on you system etc. This really destroys
binary files like gzip files. Read the manual (I think ncftp does the
right thing.)
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