From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 18 20:01:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA23416 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 20:01:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA23405 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 20:00:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA05086; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 00:59:36 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199711190059.AAA05086@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Michael E Mercer cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When downloading list of news groups , headers ,etc...it always stalls. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Nov 1997 18:18:37 EST." <3472224C.889F9ECC@gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 00:59:36 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hello All, > I searched the mailing list archives and found only one question > related > to my problem and it was just the question. No answer. > > My question is when I try to download the complete list of news groups > OR more than 3 headers per group OR try to look at a file bigger than > 15 lines, IT ALWAYS STALLS. What is the problem here. Everything > else seems to work just fine. HELP. I am at the end of my rope here. What always stalls ? The link ? The download itself ? What sofware are you using ? How is your machine set up ? > Thanks for your time. > Michael > -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....