| I also haven't been able to reproduce your bug, Simon.  From the page that Eric
| quoted, I'd guess that what we're seeing is corruption-in-transit of a patch
| that we're pulling.

That'd be surprising, because it *also* happens if I pull from a local repo of the HEAD, which itself seems to be working fine. (Maybe it's illusory that it's working fine.)

| You've mentioned that this is darcs 1.0.9 on Windows.  Do you know whether this
| darcs was compiled with libcurl? All I can think is that maybe the bug is
| library-related... so if you're using a transport method other than libcurl
| (e.g. straight wget or curl) that would be interesting.

I'm afraid I don't know -- I just took the binary download from the darcs site, so it depends how you built it.

Meanwhile, I can probably work around this, so don't worry about fixing.  I though you should know about it, though, because it's an obscure message that might leave someone else totally stuck.

Simon