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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