fedora core 2 dvd iso download

[Jeff Vian]

Sean Estabrooks wrote:

>On Sat, 22 May 2004 17:58:24 +0200
>"michael ." <ilovebytes at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>hi hope you can give me a hint with this problem i have downloaded fedora 
>>dvd iso already for 2 times but both times the file on my pc was about 10 MB 
>>larger than the one on the ftp und the md5sums were incorrect
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>>what ftp prog to u suse to dowload the dvd iso within windows ?
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>Hi Mike,
>
>It sounds like your problem is that you're downloading with ASCII mode
>where the ftp program automatically converts single newlines into CR LF.
>Make sure your ftp program is set to use binary mode and you should be
>ok.   Just about any ftp program should be ok, including using the command
>line ftp.
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>Good luck,
>Sean.
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If using ASCII mode it does a lot more than convert newlines.  ASCII 
mode converts all bytes to fit within the ASCII range of characters and 
will not transmit any that are outside that range without conversion.. 
 Yes, it does corrupt binary files irretrievably.

Jeff