Re: PGP 2.1 site list

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From: Philip Zimmermann
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:27

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In article <92353.095746JDG111@psuvm.psu.edu> <JDG111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Concerning the difficulties of CRC errors in PGP21.ZIP files - I too had the
>same problem when FTPing from numerous sites.  PKZIP 1.10 would always give
>CRC errors, and the files were corrupted when they were unzipped.  It
>appears that version 1.93 Alpha of PKZIP was used to ZIP up PGP 2.1.  WHen I
>used 1.93 to unzip it, it worked fine.  PKZIP 1.10 will *NOT* work with the
>PGP 2.1 release ZIP files however.
>
>--Douglas Good,  Penn State University

I just used PKUNZIP version 1.1 on MSDOS to unzip the pgp21.zip and
pgp21src.zip files I downloaded from the distribution via FTP.  It
works for me.  No CRC errors.  I'm not doubting your report, but could
there be any other technical errors that could account for this problem?

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Message-ID: <1992Dec18.192757.24835@ncar.ucar.edu>

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From: prz@sage.cgd.ucar.edu (Philip Zimmermann)
Subject: Re: PGP 2.1 site list
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