From: "Stephan Kämper" Date: 2003-04-18T07:06:23+09:00 Subject: Problems downloading RDoc - WAS: Re: ANN: ri 1.8b Dave Thomas wrote: > Are you by any change using something like wget or curl? If so, you > might be downloading the Sourceforge HTML page that lists their various > mirrors. No. I tried to download it with browsers (see below). And I'm pretty sure that it's not an HTML file I got - not even a Microsoft one. ;) > I just downloaded on my W2k box using IE and it came down OK. I used the > option to save the file to disk. > > Confused (again) I'm terribly sorry for being confusing. But then... testers soo often just can't help being confusing - please accept my apologogies anyway. ;-) Up to now I tried several thing to find out what's going on: I tried - different packers on both ri1.8b and RDoc ri unpacks fine, but RDoc doesn't - several ways of getting RDoc (used IE 6.0 and Mozilla 1.3) and some ways of downloading (left-clicking on the link, right-clicking it ...) - a couple of mirrors Only the Australian one gives me a .tgz.gz file all others claim to send me a tgz file. Now I always end up with identical files... The first couple of bytes, printed with a file dumper (I wrote in Ruby - and yes the file mode is set to binary) gives the following (hex values to the lerft of the bar, chars on the right hand side): 1f 9d 90 72 c8 bc 19 d3 | 31 � � r � � 25 � 02 86 8b 1c 2e 60 bc 18 | 02 � � 28 . ` � 24 82 26 8c 9b 33 65 98 bc | � & � � 3 e � � 39 03 a0 a2 c5 8b 18 33 | 9 03 � � � 24 3 Does that say anything to someone? Cheers Stephan I think I'm going too try unpacking the file on our other computer (which is a Linux machine) tomorrow...