On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Chris Smith wrote:
> Recently downloaded the Debion Official CD 1.3.1. When I ran the md5sum
> program against it, I received a failure in all 85 files. Since I haven't
> experienced any other corruption problems I am at a loss to explain this.
> Newbie at Linux, used NT4 to download and ran the posted DOS md5sum
> (md5sum.exe -cv md5sums) against the download.
> Thanks.
Sounds like you may not have set the download for binary transfer. On a
typical ftp session I type "binary", to set the tranfer mode to binary,
then type "hash", to give a visual indication of the transfer. If I am
going to do multiple file transfers with mget, then I also type "prompt"
so I don't have to say "y" for each file.
If you don't set binary mode for transfers, ascii transfer mode is usually
the default, resulting in only 7/8ths of the data getting sent to the
target file.
Luck,
Dwarf
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