[Genome] PhastCons .pp.gz files appear corrupt on Windows XP

[Clement Kent]

   Hi, I downloaded the contents of the directory  
http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/dm3/phastCons15way/ several  
ways (ftp and firefox download) and experienced problems trying to  
extract the .pp file from the .gz archives, when the file had been  
downloaded using windows dos ftp. My extractor (7-Zip) claimed the  
files had mismatching crc ("broken" was the actual error message).

   When I downloaded the files from within Firefox, I was able to  
extract without a problem.

   Your documentation recommends using ftp; if there is a special  
setting for Windows users to use you might consider adding it to the  
docs. I tried both ascii and binary get and mget commands, with no luck.

   Thanks,

   Clement Kent
Dept. of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga