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To: David Kanter <david.kanter@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: FTP is stalling 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:31:10 -0700
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>I'm trying to download the teTeX files but the download continually stalls
>on the teTeX-texmf tarball at about 80 percent to 85 percent complete. This
>happens no matter what ftp site I got to.
>
>I'm using the generic ftp.
>
>Any ideas?

   Sounds like a network problem that is fairly close to you topology-wise.
Marginal circuits are often sensitive to certain bit patterns.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
Pave the road of life with opportunities.


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