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To: Allen Cleveland <allenc@mindsieve.com>
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Subject: Re: SETI@home error
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Allen Cleveland wrote:
> 
> At 10:46 PM 8/3/99 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> >
> >
> >Allen Cleveland wrote:
> >>
> >> I've just installed, from the ports collection, the setiathome client and
> >> I'm getting the following error once it has a work unit:
> >>
> >> Bad file header
> >>
> >> Sadly, thats all I get. It might be worth mentioning that I initially
> >> tried running all the freebsd clients that are available from the seti web
> >> site and all returned the same error. This is what leads me to believe
> >> I've left something out, rather than the work units actually being
> >> corrupt. This is also the reason I've installed it from the ports
> >> collection and am now asking if anyone here has any ideas.
> >
> >You have to have setup an account with Berkeley. Did you do that. I
> >have been running version 1.2 for FreeBSD 3.2 for a little over a
> >month.
> >
> >Kent
> 
> Oh..  I've an account..  the web sites says I've 'completed more work units
> than 96.371% of our users.' :)  I want to see how much better the fbsd box
> does than the wintel boxes  :)
> 
> >
> >>
> >> setiathome version:
> >>
> >> bash-2.03# cat version.txt
> >> major_version=1
> >> minor_version=1
> >>
> >> freebsd version:
> >>
> >> bash-2.03# uname -a
> >> FreeBSD roswell 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #0: Sun Jun 13 05:43:26
> >> EDT 1999     root@roswell:/usr/src/sys/compile/ROSWELL  i386
> >>
> >> --
> >> Allen Cleveland                 allenc@mindsieve.com
> >> There is no try. Do, or do not do, but no try. -Yoda
> >>
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> >
> >--
> >Kent Stewart
> >Richland, WA
> >
> >mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com
> >http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html
> >
> >SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME
> >http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
> >
> --
> Allen Cleveland                 allenc@mindsieve.com
> There is no try. Do, or do not do, but no try. -Yoda
> 
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I bet you need to create a new account because you are using new software.
The only use I have had for win98 lately is to run the win98 version. It
is neat looking.

-d


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