What causes this?  I just downloaded the thing for a second time today, and
it did it again.  I'm talking about RC-1, of course.

Cheers!

Chip Shults
My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip

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If you use IE, Netscape or something similar, but not a download-manager
software, chances are the transfer broke before finishing .. so you don't
have the whole file... Have you checked this?

Otherwise I don't know... I think there are normally some error checking on
the Internet, to prevent false data.

Regards,
Hugo

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On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:54:12 -0500, Sir Charles W. Shults III wrote:

>     What causes this?  I just downloaded the thing for a second time
>     today, and
> it did it again.  I'm talking about RC-1, of course.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Chip Shults
> My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip
> 

if you're downloading via FTP, make sure you're downloading in binary
mode.  I've made this mistake many times.

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I'm on Roadrunner cable service, using IE5, direct clicking the link and it
comes over in a few seconds.  The filesize looks right, 8,138,555 bytes.  The
error occurs on C:/ ...../bin/povcmax2.dll and gives "corrupt file" error.  I
have made three different downloads, at three different times to no avail.
    I always use the same links and download method, and when downloading the
program, it never works on the first try, and usually works on the second or
third.  There has got to be a simple explanation for this.

Cheers!

Chip Shults
My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip

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"Sir Charles W. Shults III" <aic### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
news:3cbd8649$1@news.povray.org...
>     I'm on Roadrunner cable service, using IE5, direct clicking the link and
it
> comes over in a few seconds.  The filesize looks right, 8,138,555 bytes.  The
> error occurs on C:/ ...../bin/povcmax2.dll and gives "corrupt file" error.  I
> have made three different downloads, at three different times to no avail.
>     I always use the same links and download method, and when downloading the
> program, it never works on the first try, and usually works on the second or
> third.  There has got to be a simple explanation for this.
>

A suggested work-around would be to download the VC compile, which is just the
.exe and therefore considerably smaller.

Are you de-installing the previous version? Dunno if this would make any
difference, but it's what I always do (obviously DON'T do this if you go for the
VC compile).

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"Sir Charles W. Shults III" <aic### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
news:3cbd8649$1@news.povray.org...
: I'm on Roadrunner cable service, using IE5, direct clicking the link
and it
: comes over in a few seconds.  The filesize looks right, 8,138,555
bytes.  The
: error occurs on C:/ ...../bin/povcmax2.dll and gives "corrupt file"
error.  I

One word: diskcache. Clear it or IE uses the file in the cache and if it
was broken on the first try it won't get any better..

Ari-Matti

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"Sir Charles W. Shults III" wrote:
> 
>     I'm on Roadrunner cable service, using IE5, direct clicking the link and it
> comes over in a few seconds.  The filesize looks right, 8,138,555 bytes.  The
> error occurs on C:/ ...../bin/povcmax2.dll and gives "corrupt file" error.  I
> have made three different downloads, at three different times to no avail.
>     I always use the same links and download method, and when downloading the
> program, it never works on the first try, and usually works on the second or
> third.  There has got to be a simple explanation for this.

If you want to check your download, the MD5 checksum of my (intact)
version:

b5ec5c7c4575ed93d77ea8fd21fd77f6 *povwin35-beta-RC1.exe

Christoph

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I completely uninstall before downloading the new one.

Cheers!

Chip Shults
My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip

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It goes through the complete download sequence- and if a cache file were the
case, I would never get a good working copy.  In previous attempts, I get a
working copy after a download or two.  Still, I will look at that.

Cheers!

Chip Shults
My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip

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I downloaded MD5, checked the file, and the checksum is completely
different.  I'll try another download.

Cheers!

Chip Shults
My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip

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