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cneil@okstate.edu (Neil Cathey) wrote:
>>Joe "We are Borg" Foster <joe@bftsi0.UUCP> writes:
>><ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/NT4SP3_I.EXE> SP 3.0.1 Intel
>
>Well, I'm hooked to the Internet through  a campus lan, so I downloaded the 
>"new" SP3 and extracted the files in it.  I can't explain the size differences 
>between the "old" and "new" SP3 archives, but after extraction, they are 
>identical.  They both have 649 files taking up 56,411,868 bytes.  The file 
>dates are identical too, 5/1/97 12:00AM.  Maybe they rearchived them for some 
>reason?  I don't know...

If you get the files from the more usual place:

  ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/usa/nt40/ussp3/i386

you'll see a readme file there that says:

   Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3

   This is NOT a new version of the Service Pack. The dates are
   different than the original files because the following files 
   have been resigned. No changes were made to the Service Pack.

    Nt4sp3_a.exe
    Nt4sp3_i.exe
    Nt4sym3a.exe
    Nt4sym3i.exe

Hope this helps.

garry

PS - I assume "resigned" means "re-signed" in the above. Who knows what
re-signed means.