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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I just downloaded libz.so.1.1.3 using BL2, on the first try, no stalling,
with the same hardware.

There is definitely something not working quite right in my BL3, on the 
same computer, 5 minutes earlier.  I would like to help diagnose the 
problem with this as BL3 is not very useful to me if I cannot use it to 
download linux files.  If nobody else confirms my problem, I might suspect 
the hard drive (hdparam) reset problem, which I have corrected in BL2 but 
did not bother doing in BL3 since it has not showed up yet other than when 
I tried to ls something in the BL2 partition.  BL3 is accessing C: 
somehow, isn't it?  Would it do so only 75% of the way through variable 
size downloads?  I can also try on the other BL3 computer to get the same 
file. 

It is also possible that the hdparam problem is interfering with microcom 
so we will plug in the phone line and try  microcom on the other computer.
Maybe the 'reset' message is being sent every time I receive 'assword:'?


On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> I was unable to get past about 80% trying to download either lynx.tgz
> (SW40)  or Kermit (for SW40) using links for BL3 or wget.  Every time it
> would stop (0 B/sec) at the same place in the file.  Lynx was from
> ftp.planetmirror.com and SW4.0 Kermit was from the Kermit site.
> 
> These were relatively large files, and stalled at about 80% or so.
> One of them, on the second or later tries, would then always stall wget at 
> 4096 bytes.  I forget which one.
> 
> Today I am trying to download another linux file:
> www.iamjlamb.com/~keesan/libz.so.1.1.3  (from elflibs.tgz SW4.0,
> downloaded to that address via a faster connection, unpacked, the file I 
> wanted was then moved to my web directory because I don't have kermit for 
> file transfer yet, or microcom working to dial my bbs and get the same 
> file from there after ftping it there.)
> 
> With lynx (2.6 for SW3.1) it gets to 44.5 of 61K, several times.
> Wget stalls at 72%, several times.
> Links goes to 0 B/s at 75% of the file, several times.
> 
> I could download a short .com file okay, it is apparently just the linux 
> files causing stalling.  I have not had this problem with BL2, ever.
> 
> I eventually downloaded lynx and kermit on a Win98 computer (we were
> testing a modem in it anyway) and did llpro file transfer.  Dont' yet have 
> either one working.  Lynx needs zlib. Kermit may need a later ncurses and 
> I can't download linux files with BL3.
> 
> Someone please confirm.  I will leave libz there for a day or two.
> (I will try getting it with BL2 next, via kermit file transfer.  I can't 
> get kermit working in Bl3 - it may  need a newer ncurses, which I expect I 
> also cannot download with Bl3, nor can I download an older kermit for 
> SW3.5).
> 
> 
> I thought at first that I had a bad ISP connection but this is too 
> reproducible.  Two days in a row, and no problem in between with other 
> OSes.  Three different sites and files.  
> 
> Sindi
> 
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