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Subject:    Re: [ethereal-users] crc error in win32 distro
From:       Richard Urwin <RUrwin () RTA ! RICARDO ! COM>
Date:       2001-12-18 8:58:07
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Which browser and which download link did you both use? It seems to me that
it would be useful to know.

On the ethereal site, I tried both the standard win32 binary link, which is
HTTP, and the win32 binary off the FTP source tree link. Both worked for me
in both IE6.0.2600.0000 and Netscape 4.0

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-----Original Message-----
From: neil lehrer [mailto:nlehrer@ibb.gov]
Sent: 17 December 2001 15:36
To: Guy Harris
Cc: John Zimmerman; ethereal-users@ethereal.com
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] crc error in win32 distro


had similar problem when downloading with browser.  went away when i used
wsftp.

Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 02:10:33AM -0600, John Zimmerman wrote:
> > hello, i'm running win98 and I get a crc error when trying to run the
setup
> > program. (Installer CRC invalid)  I downloaded it three times, and I
have
> > broadband, so I don't think it is from my transmission.
> 
> Broadband has nothing to do with it.  That's a link-layer issue; there
> are several layers *above* the link layer that could make a difference,
> and the most likely layer (as it's the one without error checking) is
> the FTP or HTTP layer.
> 
> For example, it may be that whatever tool you're using to download the
> setup program is getting confused (yes, it is possible for even very
> popular Web browsers to get confused) and downloading it in text mode
> rather than binary mode; when downloading a file in text mode, the
> server or the downloading program may transform the data under the
> assumption that it's a text file, so that the downloaded copy is a text
> file in the appropriate format for the machine downloading it.  If,
> however, the file is a binary file, that transformation merely turns it
> into junk.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't know what tools have what problems, as I've never
> seen that particular problem using Netscape 4.78 (or whatever) on
> Windows NT or any flavor of UNIX.  I also don't know whether Windows 98
> comes with a command-line FTP program, and don't know what other
> programs are available for Windows to do downloading (via FTP or HTTP),
> so you'll have to try other programs, or ask for help from somebody who
> has had the problem and fixed it, or something such as that.
> 
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