Hi DU admins
Success.  Thanks to Mike Iglesias, Ron Bowman and Kym Schwarz
of Digital Australia.
Kym told me about an Australian mirror site for patch downloads:
   ftp.digital.com.au/pub/patches/osf/<version>
Mike and Ron both suggested I try with binary mode set. I don't 
remember having to do this before for patch downlaods but this 
time I tried a download from the Australian site with binary
mode set.
I've now got a patch kit with the correct size and check sum and 
`tar tvf` is showing a valid tar file.
Thanks again
Ian
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_/                                                     Ian Mortimer _/
_/ mortimer_at_physics.uq.edu.au   ,-_|\         Department of Physics _/
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Disclaimer: Speaking only for myself.
Received on Tue Mar 03 1998 - 23:57:26 NZDT