jqj@cornell.UUCP (J Q Johnson) (09/10/86)
Due to gateway problems at MIT, it appears to be impossible at the moment to FTP edist.tar (or edist.tar.Z) from PREP.AI.MIT.EDU. I've been trying off and on for weeks, and in every case transfers have been prematurely terminated. SIMTEL-20 provides edist.tar, but not edist.tar.Z, and is on MILNET rather than ARPAnet. I'm at the end of a VDH ARPAnet link at < 9600 baud, and don't want to tie up the link for the half day getting it from SIMTEL-20 would take. Given that some sites do in fact need complete distributions of the current GNU Emacs distribution and can't make do with deltas, are there any kind souls directly connected to the ARPAnet (preferably at 56Kb) who can make edist-17.64.tar.Z available for anonymous ftp?
rusty@weyl.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright) (09/18/86)
In article <3530@cornell.UUCP> jqj@cornell.UUCP (J Q Johnson) writes: >Due to gateway problems at MIT, it appears to be impossible at the >moment to FTP edist.tar (or edist.tar.Z) from PREP.AI.MIT.EDU. I've >been trying off and on for weeks, and in every case transfers have been >prematurely terminated. > >SIMTEL-20 provides edist.tar, but not edist.tar.Z, and is on MILNET >rather than ARPAnet. I'm at the end of a VDH ARPAnet link at < 9600 >baud, and don't want to tie up the link for the half day getting it >from SIMTEL-20 would take. > >Given that some sites do in fact need complete distributions of the >current GNU Emacs distribution and can't make do with deltas, are there >any kind souls directly connected to the ARPAnet (preferably at 56Kb) >who can make edist-17.64.tar.Z available for anonymous ftp? Be sure that you set ftp for binary/image mode when transferring either the .tar or the .tar.Z file. Once I did that then I had no problem getting it. This seems to be something new that I didn't have to do before. rusty c. wright rusty@weyl.berkeley.edu ucbvax!weyl!rusty