Re: Stuffit Expander interrupts downloads


Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:54:22 -0600 (MDT)


On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Craig Roberts wrote:

> I've been trying to download Champion 1.0 for coupla days now and keep having
> transfer problems. Using 128kbps leaded-line.
>
> Stuffit Expander keeps popping up saying I can buy the PowerPC native version
> of DropStuff, but I dont think that's too much of an issue - just annoying
> (should pay up i spose :-).
>
> Anyway, I also had to change from Anarchie Pro as ftp client after the first
> d'load efforts cos of '...' problem - now use Fetch 3.03.
>
> The d'load works until it gets to some files and then it stops cos of server
> connection problem. eg. in ../misc/ the trees dir would only d'load to keymaps
> dir and halts - this happended in 2 separate attempts.

Don't grab the misc directory. That just contains the installer source
code.

All that you really need is the RedHat directory.

>
> I am just enquiring if anyone else has had hassles with d'loads and has
> suggestions for success. Trying uiarchive site now.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> -+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+-x-o-+
> Craig Roberts, ANZCS Senior IT Consultant
> e-mail: craig@rata.cce.ac.nz
>
> Tel: +64 3 343 7750 Fax: +64 3 348 4311
> College of Education, Christchurch, New Zealand.
>
>

Dan

Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
 email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
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