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To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: Weirdie with SLIP line seen here too... 
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Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:40:59 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.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