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Unregistered September 14th, 2002 04:44 AM

the magic number did not match
 
wot the hell is a magic number??????? somebody please help! i downloaded the program then i open the installer then it says''the magic number did not match''

John Blackbelt Jones September 23rd, 2002 05:59 AM

magic number ...

sounds like a java error ...

could you post more details?

Unregistered September 23rd, 2002 10:43 AM

Magic numbers are...
 
...used in Unix to guess the effectibe datatype of a file. It's some bytes at the beinning of the file that contain a signature of the file type.
Unix and Linux use them to know which executable format is given to execute. If you experience this error, either the file is corrupted, it is truncated, you have filesystem errors (cross-linked clusters or sectors), ...
Or you want to execute a program that has not been built for your OS, and Unix/Linux refuses to launch it!


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