Re: Download failures

Greetings "Theo Zweers&quot; < tjzwrs%40xs4all.nl">tjzwrsxs4all.nl>
On 16/03/2008 at 07:31 you wrote concerning
Re: [PageStreamSupport] Download failures

Hi Theo,

Thank you for the information below. So far the respondents who claim successful
downloads have been with Windows machines! Is that telling me something?

Correction! A later message noted that an Amiga system was used with success.
Also, iBrowse was used without error, so that takes us to OS4.0 or to my ISP.
Hmmmm!

TZ>> I inquired about download problems from Grasshopper a few days ago, but no
TZ>;> reply
TZ>> so I'll try again.

TZ>>; Instead of bothering Deron with the matters below, it would simplify
TZ>> things much
TZ&gt;> if someone would verify that they have no trouble downloading from
TZ&gt;> Grasshopper.
TZ>> I suspect that is the case and that I should be taking my problems
TZ>> elsewhere,
TZ>&gt; but it seems to make sense to check here first.

TZ>>; I've been using both AWeb 3.5.0.0 and iBrowse 2.4 for the downloads, and
TZ&gt;> the
TZ&gt;> results are essentially the same -- failure.

TZ>&gt; For example: I tried to download both

TZ>> PageStream Fonts v0.2 at 4,804,199 bytes
TZ>> and
TZ&gt;> PageStream 4.1.5.6Pro at 11,804,776 bytes

TZ>> and in each case at some point OS4.0 (Final + July 2007 update) complained
TZ>&gt; about
TZ>> not receiving the complete files. The complaints were of the vintage:

TZ&gt;> Re PageStream Fonts v0.2 the message was
TZ&gt;> Expected 4804199
TZ>> Received 3293184
TZ>>
TZ> I've downloaded Fonts v0.2 and it's complete! I could extract all!

TZ> Using Windows XP and Firefox 3.0 Beta 4.

&lt;<snip&gt;>

Cheers Don (Green Dragon)
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Neither windows nor amiga, but when I downloaded the latest OS X beta
earlier it dl'd without error using linux (which is normal, that is my
workstation and where I normally work from) but when I tried to open
it OS X complained that the archive was corrupt. So I checked the MD5
and sure enough it didn't match.

I downloaded it a few minutes ago via OS X (from work instead of home)
and it came in just fine. It may be that there are some intermittent
issues for now. If so it could be really hard to pin down the cause,
but I'd expect the longer the download takes the more likely it is for
an issue to come up.

And of course it could be something else entirely, what do I know

Tim Doty

On Mar 17, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Don Ferguson wrote:

> Greetings "Theo Zweers&quot; < tjzwrs%40xs4all.nl">tjzwrsxs4all.nl>
>; On 16/03/2008 at 07:31 you wrote concerning
> Re: [PageStreamSupport] Download failures
>
>;
> Hi Theo,
&gt;
> Thank you for the information below. So far the respondents who
> claim successful
> downloads have been with Windows machines! Is that telling me
> something?
>
> Correction! A later message noted that an Amiga system was used with
> success.
> Also, iBrowse was used without error, so that takes us to OS4.0 or
> to my ISP.
>; Hmmmm!
&gt;
> TZ>> I inquired about download problems from Grasshopper a few days
> ago, but no
> TZ>> reply
&gt; TZ>> so I'll try again.
&gt;
> TZ>> Instead of bothering Deron with the matters below, it would
> simplify
> TZ>> things much
>; TZ>> if someone would verify that they have no trouble downloading
> from
>; TZ>> Grasshopper.
> TZ>> I suspect that is the case and that I should be taking my
> problems
> TZ>> elsewhere,
> TZ>> but it seems to make sense to check here first.
&gt;
> TZ>> I've been using both AWeb 3.5.0.0 and iBrowse 2.4 for the
> downloads, and
> TZ>> the
> TZ>> results are essentially the same -- failure.
>
>; TZ>> For example: I tried to download both
>;
> TZ>> PageStream Fonts v0.2 at 4,804,199 bytes
&gt; TZ>> and
> TZ>> PageStream 4.1.5.6Pro at 11,804,776 bytes
&gt;
> TZ>> and in each case at some point OS4.0 (Final + July 2007 update)
> complained
> TZ>> about
&gt; TZ>> not receiving the complete files. The complaints were of the
> vintage:
>
>; TZ>> Re PageStream Fonts v0.2 the message was
> TZ>> Expected 4804199
> TZ>> Received 3293184
> TZ>>
> TZ> I've downloaded Fonts v0.2 and it's complete! I could extract all!
>;
> TZ> Using Windows XP and Firefox 3.0 Beta 4.
>
> <<snip>>
>
&gt;
> Cheers Don (Green Dragon)
> --
>
>
>
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Hello Don

On 03/17/2008, you wrote:

> [...]
&gt; Thank you for the information below. So far the respondents who claim
&gt; successful downloads have been with Windows machines! Is that telling
> me something?
>
> Correction! A later message noted that an Amiga system was used with
>; success. Also, iBrowse was used without error, so that takes us to
> OS4.0 or to my ISP. Hmmmm!

Now I feel I have been remiss in not responding to this thread.

I just took a look, and found a couple of large downloads I have made via
OS4 and IBrowse.

drg.zip 32004365 ----rwed 23-Nov-07 21:57:22
This has to be with the July update, obviously. I can't tell for sure I got
it intact, because Unarc says the main file is about 200 megabytes larger
than my free space (before I knew that, I tried to unpack it and ended up
having to reboot), but three smaller files that came with unpacked fine.

gus_patches.lha 31177308 ----rwed 22-Jan-08 17:41:43
I'm not sure what this is for--a bunch of instrumental patches--oh, I just
checked ".pat" with Find and they're all Timidity plugins for TuneNet--and
it dearchives without a whimper.

OWB itself is a recent download, 12,423,991B as packed, and I have a number
over 10M that worked fine.

I hope you get your problem worked out. I guess you know that dial-up is
one of Beelzebub's cruelist inventions.

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Bart

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