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Date:      Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:32:06 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0-19981226-SNAP/src/ssys.ac is corrupt 
Message-ID:  <199901040832.AAA11061@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Jan 1999 16:32:17 %2B0900." <36906E81.D5AB960A@newsguy.com> 

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> "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> > 
> > > Can someone fix this?  and perhaps guide me as to where there might be a
> > > mirror that is not corrupt?  (I hope the CD wasn't cut from this src).
> > 
> > There's nothing wrong with this file - the problem is somewhere on
> > your end, or between our two sites.  There's absolutely nothing we
> > can do about it here.
> 
> Err... I happen to have seen the exact same problem. I tried four
> times to install the sys sources, and each time the connection would
> stop at the precise same point.
> 
> Maybe my provider uses a Cisco, as you suggest on another message,
> who knows... But having the connection stop at the precise point
> four times with me, and at least one more time with the person above
> (I can't be sure it was the same point with him, but it looks like
> the same file, at least), while every thing else on a developer
> install with full sources came correctly... how could that be?

This is usually a "magic byte sequence" which blows the brains out of 
something in the transit path.  We've seen a few of these.

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