25 May
2002
25 May
'02
2:41 a.m.
At 11:26 PM 5/24/02 -0400, you wrote:
I need some help. Jay West has kindly posted the file
"rt11freewarev2.iso.gz" at:
http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/RT-11/freeware-CDS/images/
"rt11freewarev2.iso.gz" is about 171 Mbytes in size. It is my
understanding that
the full size file "rt11freewarev2.iso" is exactly 671,088,640 bytes in
size which
is the CD for the RT11 Freeware CD produced by Tim Shoppa. However,
when
the download of the "rt11freewarev2.iso.gz" file is complete, I end up
with a file
that is 687,282,673 bytes which is different in size and can NOT be
-snip-
I am using Windows 98 SE/Netscape 4.78 and the normal
WinZip in case
that
therein lies the problem.
I've had this problem with netscape for large downloads. Something
gets out of sync. Use wget instead for downloading, and gzip for
decompressing; they're both available for win32. Contact me off the
list if you want win32 command line executables.
Regards,
carlos.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org