Under MacOS X and Darwin, they most certainly did!

On Monday, July 2, 2001, at 11:24 AM, Jochen F. Rick wrote:

> Weird indeed. When I moved the files, I moved them in binary. I think
> some may have gotten trashed on minnow, but the ones on coweb should be
> good. Please let me know of any more files you find that have problems
> and I'll fix them. Stupid Macs with their stupid transfer programs! Why
> can't they just implement tar like everyone else.
>
> Peace and Luck!
>
> Je77
>
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 09:41:19AM -0400, Mark Guzdial wrote:
>> That's very weird -- I checked them all before putting them up.
>> (They weren't uploaded -- they were moved across by AppleShare.)
>>
>> Ohhhh -- I wonder if something bad happened when CoWeb became a Linux
>> box.  Anyway, I have the original Word and will upload new PDF soon.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>> "Noel J. Bergman" wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Several chapters on the Swiki 
>>>> (http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook/35)
>>>> have corrupt files that will not load with Acrobat:
>>>>
>>>>         Back to the Future Once More
>>>>         Networking Squeak
>>>>         Porting Squeak
>>>>
>>>> The others appear to be OK, inasmuch as they load.
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes. I've just checked this with Acrobat 4.0 (and everything else on 
>>> my
>>> system capable of reading pdf). They're definately corrupt beyond
>>> redemption.
>>>
>>> xpdf gives:
>>>
>>> john at molehole:~/Desktop/book_test > xpdf parsia.pdf
>>> xpdf version 0.90
>>> Copyright © 1996-1999 Derek B. Noonburg
>>> Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref 
>>> table...
>>> Error (2968): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
>>> Error (7400): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
>>> Error (10239): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
>>> Error (12832): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
>>> Error (15239): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
>>> Error (17576): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
>>> Error (19668): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
>>> Error (21802): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
>>> Error (24368): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
>>> Error (27467): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
>>> Error (30371): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
>>> Error (33525): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
>>> Error (36807): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
>>>
>>>
>>> Shame as there's some really terrific stuff there. I just wonder if 
>>> they
>>> were uploaded as ascii by accident?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> John
>>> --
>>> ***********************************************************************
>>> *******
>>> Marx: "Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea?"
>>> Proudhon: "Because all proper tea is theft."
>>> ***********************************************************************
>>> *******
>>
>> --------------------------
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>> 30332-0280
>> Associate Professor - Learning Sciences & Technologies.
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>