Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:40:59 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weirdie with SLIP line seen here too... Message-ID: <4954.857706059@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Mar 1997 09:23:21 MST." <199703061623.JAA14536@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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> > Strange, now I'm seeing that magic "bit pattern-o-death" that > > guarantees that the download of a given file over a slip line will > > always hang in a given place. See if any of you fellow sufferers can > > download the following file: > > > > ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/jkh/badbits > > This is new for me, but it's 'HANG-O'MATIC' on my line. Cool! We've reproduced it, and in only 429 bytes! :-) Just FYI, those *exact* 429 bytes are necessary. Shave a single byte off of the beginning or the end and it will work fine. It took me some binary searching to come up with this file, trust me. :-) Jordan
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