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to: LYNN NASH
from: JACK PFISTERER
date: 1997-07-07 13:07:00
subject: NEW RELEASE OF NETSCAPE2

LN> JP>Responding to James McKenzie:
LN> JM> On Friday 27 June, 1997, IBM and Netscape released a new version of 
NS/
  >   > ... It may be obtained ... at IBM's FTP site 
(ftp://service2.boulder.ib
  >   > .com/software/netscape).  The file sizes are definately different.
LN> JP>Just downloaded the file dated 27 Jun 97 and found the contents 
identica
  > to what I downloaded two or three months ago.
LN> This is the second time that they have done it. If you downloaded one 
ust
  > two months ago then it was also different from the original release 
without
  > a notice of any kind.  I don't know what you received but the file sizes
  > were slightly different for me.
Yep, that's different; both in contents and in name.  The file(s) I download
were identified as nsos2202.exe.
Appreciate the detailed listing.  I'll see if I can get those files now.
LN> You should keep in mind that it is not always necessary for a file size 
o
  > change to be different. Just changing bytes in an array somewhere and
  > recompiling may fix a bug without the file size changing. Only a binary
  > compare of old and new will point out the truth.
Yep, but noted that the CRC's for the entire archive were unchanged.  Highly
unlikely if changes have been made even without changing the file sizes.
Thanks, Lynn
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