5032921597 wrote: > Inside of this directory there are four small files that > have the file extension "sig" and three of them have > downloaded just fine. The forth one failed many tries. > I also found a Mirror directory on another site that > has that directory mirrored...but -not- the one file > that I can't download. Here is the Weblink\URL > to the file that I'm told "the source file cannot be read": > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.9/lyx-1.6.9-cygwin.tar.gz.sig
Strange, it works for me and it seems to have proper rights. > It would make better sense if the one file was > missing from the Mirror? Yes...but -all- of the > files with a "sig" file extension are not to be seen > at the Mirror site. Here is the WebLink/URL > for the Mirror site: > > http://lyx.cybermirror.org/1.6.9/ > > > I have no idea what files with the "sig" file extension > are for (anyone wish to tell me?). These are GPG signatures. You only need them if you want to verify that the binaries are really provided by "us" (the LyX developers). See the explanations here: http://www.lyx.org/Download#toc11 Jürgen
