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- From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
- Subject: [386BSD] Got XS3 server finally (was: Re: Ported software list.)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.070302.2144@autelca.ascom.ch>
- Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
- References: <20408.9211090134@thor.cf.ac.uk> <1992Nov9.145903.19244@autelca.ascom.ch> <1992Nov10.134110.20932@rtpnc.epa.gov> <1992Nov10.165438.21077@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 07:03:02 GMT
- Lines: 54
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- hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov10.134110.20932@rtpnc.epa.gov> fty@bizarre.rtpnc.epa.gov (Frank Terhaar-Yonkers) writes:
- >>Is anyone else having a problem? I show 750 accesses to this archive in the
- >>past two months and no other complaints ...
- >>
- >>- Frank
- >>
- [ text about problems to connect to sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov deleted - NB.]
-
- >Hi,
- >Where will you like for me to place XS3 that is convenient for you
- >to access?
- With a lot of trouble, but finally with success, I was able to get the
- XS3 server from sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov !
- I will put it up for anon-ftp here in Switzerland.
-
- Some background for those interested (others can hit 'n' now):
-
- Because I don't have direct ftp-access I am using a ftp-mail service.
- That's why I can't try to connect to sunvis.rtpnc... at any time I would like
- and I can't try it 100 times a day.
- I tried several times to connect to the ftp-site (mentioned above) via mail.
- I got just one connection, did a directory listing of the directory
- pub/386bsd/incoming and saw a symbolic link for all the X programs to a
- different directory :-( That means, XS3 is not in the directory mentioned
- in several postings. Although you might still get it if you type in the
- (sym-linked) name, you can't determine the size of the file this way !
-
- Now, I tried to get a directory listing of the other directory several times.
- No success whatsoever. I have to know the size of the file (and its name, of
- course) before I can try and get it. I won't download via ftp-mail several
- MBytes of programs or sources, regardless of what it is.
- Finally, it is expensive over here :-( Even if I got a connection, as soon
- as the mode was changed from binary to ascii there was a timeout and that's it.
- Frank Terhaar-Yonkers (thanks a lot for your help) send me a directory listing
- of the real directory (pub/386bsd/X) in which the XS3 server is stored.
-
- Yesterday, I tried again to connect to the server and after the fifth try (four
- were done by the ftp-mail server, but I didn't give up and send the job again),
- I finally got the XS3 server. It seems to me, that if I don't do any
- directory listing it might be fine sometimes. I don't know.
- As Frank told me, there are a lot of hops between my ftp-mail server and his
- ftp-site. Perhaps the timeout is not set right for this number of hops.
- Unfortunately, I can't change the timeout on the ftp-mail server !
-
- >As for the size is about 900K uncompressed and 540K compressed...
- Now, I know it, thanks.
-
- Norbert.
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