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Article #30Re: Error checking info for Fixpacks?
From: Dan Casey
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 23:56
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 -- ************************************************************** * Dan Casey * * President * * V.O.I.C.E. (Virtual OS/2 International Consumer Education * * http://www.os2voice.org * * DCasey on IRC * * http://members.home.net/dcasey3 * * Charter Associate member, Team SETI * * Board member: Warpstock, Inc. * ************************************************************** * E-Mail (subject: Req. PGP Key) for Public Key * **************************************************************
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