<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>I had a similar problem from the MacTeX home page download link (probably due to the load on the server), but when I used one of the mirror sites (for me the one in Canada), it downloaded fast and worked the first time. Try a more local mirror and it may be OK.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Erik.</div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; ">___________________________________________________________________</span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; ">Dr. Erik Jensen tel. (250) 960-6463</span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; ">UNBC Physics Department fax: (250) 960-5544</span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; ">University of Northern B.C. email: <a href="mailto:ejensen@unbc.ca">ejensen@unbc.ca</a></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; ">3333 University Way </span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; "> </span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; ">Prince George B.C. Canada V2N 4Z9</span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; ">___________________________________________________________________</span></span></font></div></div></span></div></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div><br></div><div>On 2010-09-13, at 7:43 AM, Kirk Lowery wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">I have twice downloaded <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.mpkg.zip">http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.mpkg.zip</a><div><br></div><div>I try to unarchive it with unzip. I get an error along the lines of "archive doesn't have a proper end; perhaps it's only part of a complete archive?"<br clear="all">
<br></div><div>Has anyone else had this problem? </div><div><br></div><div>TIA!<br><br></div><div>Kirk<br>--<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><br><br></body></html>