From: "Stephan Kämper" <Stephan.Kaemper@...>
Date: 2003-04-18T07:47:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems downloading RDoc - WAS: Re: ANN: ri 1.8b

Lyle Johnson wrote:
> Stephan K�mper wrote:
> Another thing to check is the downloaded file size; the size for 
> rdoc-0.9.0.tgz should be 140,186 bytes.

Exactly the size of the files I got...

>> 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 left of the bar, chars on the 
>> right hand side):

>> Does that say anything to someone?
> 
> Yes, those are definitely the first 32 bytes of rdoc-0.9.0.tgz.
> 

Thanks Lyle, that's good news. Now I just have to find a way to unpack it.

But I'll to that tomorrow - resp. after the long nap.

Cheers

Stephan