> I wonder if it's downloading in ascii ftp mode instead of binary. That's
> the first thing to check when someone mentions "garbled via ftp". I would
> have thought http servers would simply always use binary mode, since that
> works for both text and binary files, but maybe binary mode is broken in
> your ftpd, and only in one direction?
I've tested with two http servers, Apache and Roxen... Both fail on these
files...
As for the FTP, I know better and an example is the .33 kernel I built on the
machine. Since its a remote machine, before I rebooted, I tried to D/L the
kernel to another Linux PC with the same config and the FTP's failed... Only
after I gzip'd the file could I D/L it and the kernel worked great on the test
machine, so I rebooted the remote machine which too rebooted fine... The
kernel upgrade did not resolve the problem though.
A suggestion to swap out the libc is in process...
>
>
> Sounds bizarre, but that doesn't rule it out.
>
> Note: linux ftpd on kernel 2.0.29 works here when called from OS/2's web
> browser. I don't have (or Web Explorer ignores, I forget which at the
> moment) pdf->acrobat in mime.types on the OS/2 box, so Web Explorer
> always asks whether I want to download a pdf url that refers to a pdf file
> on the linux server. If I respond "yes", the pdf file is downloaded via
> ftp from the linux box to the OS/2 box, and acrobat on OS/2 doesn't report
> any problem viewing the downloaded file when I suspend the web browser
> to take a look at the pdf file. The linux box runs the wn web server and
> Dave Holland's ftpd 1.8 (from netkit-0.10), which hasn't evidenced any
> file corruption problems in either direction.
>
> Regards, Clayton Weaver cgweav@eskimo.com (Seattle)
>
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