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Re: Error checking info for Fixpacks?

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From: Dan Casey
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 23:56
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In article <3a3e9c3c_3@news1.prserv.net>,
nospam.vbien@attglobal.net  (Victor Bien delete nspam. to reply) wrote:
>  A few weeks ago I asked this group whether for me any FP > 9 were
>any good.  One observation made by Jim L <lifedata@xxvol.com> in the
>discussion was that some hardware responds badly to certain FPs.
>While this may be true I am now wondering whether some problems that
>people, including I, have encounterd are due to slightly corrupt
>downloads or at least slightly corrupt files?  These downloads may not
>only be done by oneself but by a colleague and passed on via CD-ROM.

<SNIP>

>  So I'm wondering whether IBM could supply a CRC list with a tool to
>check the diskimage files CRC against?

If you download the ZIP files for the RSU install and UNZIP them,
UNZIP will do CRC checking.

Have a look at:

http://www.warpdoctor.org/lib/ez/fp/zipchoice.html



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