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  • From: Treeve Jelbert <treeve01 AT pi.be>
  • To: Craig Dyke <grail AT enterprize.net.au>, sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire]cast wierdness
  • Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 11:06:23 +0200

On Friday 18 October 2002 17:50, Craig Dyke wrote:
> Not sure why but I seem to be having a strange quirk lately.
> If I cast a spell (appears to be any spell is effected) and am disconnected
> from the net during the download that when I notice and reconnect and then
> cast spell again that my /tmp directory where download is first placed
> seems to have the file I am retrieving except that it is actually larger
> than the file size of the file I am trying to get.
>
> eg. cast -r -c linux
> This was cast last night before I went to bed to get kernel 2.5.42
> As my connection is 56K modem and only have upto 6 hours connect
> time I was disconnected before full file arrived.
> Therefore, in morning i reconnected and recast as above.
> Once connected I notice that the kernel file size I already have is
> around
> 68MB and am told that there is -39MB to download so it finishes and
> then
> tells me that linux cannot be installed.
>
> Is anyone else getting this wierdness?
> If so, how do I stop it??
>

I have just noticed something similar.

I thing that cast is launching two copies of summon, which write to the same
target, giving a double size file which is invalid.

try reporting a bug

If you summon by hand, it is ok
> Craig
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Regards, Treeve




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