Baslinux mailing list

[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> 
> I just tried to access www.iamjlamb.com/~keesan/libz.so.3.1.1 for testing

www.iamjlamb.com/libz.so.1.1.3, sorry

With newer versions of pine I think you can click on the link in the 
message body and go there with lynx, at least you can at this computer to 
which I am telnetted.  Pine 4.44

> the download using BL3.00, but was told there is no such file on the
> server.  I guess I could be making a mistake in entering the address,
> since the BL3 machine in question is in the other room and I have to
> memorize it here, then go to that machine and enter the url (btw, putting
> a subdirectory in your web directory could reduce the margin for error:
> testers would need only go to an address like www.iamjlamb.com/~keesan/bl
> to get a list of files located there - that's how my add-ons site works.
> Then, they just select a file for download).  This was tried with both
> links and wget.  So, I tried a Slack 4.0 download with links.  I
> downloaded elflibs.tgz - a 1MB file with no interruptions or hangs at all.

Thanks for testing this and letting me know it works for you.

> This is not a dialin connection, but a LAN with a fast connection
> somewhere (university).  So maybe your problem is how the dialer
> interfaces together with the downloading software?  Wasn't there also some
> physical problem with your telephone connection at some point, as well?

Microcom is not working.  My telephone connection works fine.  Microcom 
enters something right after I give my login, which is interpreted as the
password.

> Is that definitively ruled out?  I'll try wget'ting something as well to
> see how that works
> 
> James
> _______________________________________________
> BasLinux mailing list
> BasLinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/baslinux
>