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Message-ID: <19991026170615.79776.qmail@hotmail.com>
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From: "Damian Yerrick" <d_yerrick AT hotmail DOT com>
To: onlymice AT javanet DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Zip Picker....
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 12:06:13 EST
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

>From: "Andrew L. Blais" <onlymice AT javanet DOT com>
>To: Damian Yerrick <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
>Subject: Zip Picker....
>Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:35:08 -0400
>
>Hello there:
>
>This is what happens. First, I click on
>
>http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
>
>I get a nice page with the zip picker link.
>
>Second, I click on the zip picker link:
>
>http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html
>
>I get a page that ends with: "Select a suitable FTP site: "
>
>That's it. No list. Not a thing.

Try clicking refresh. Delorie Software's site is known for being slow; it's 
run either off a 56K modem, ISDN, or ADSL (don't know which).

>So: I add a "/" to the end of *that* address, and I get to:
>
>http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html/

Don't do that.

>Lo and Behold!!! There is the zip picker page. So, I select what
>I want, and at the bottom of the page -- where it says: "Tell me
>which files I need" -- I click.
>
>THAT brings me to:
    http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html/zip-picker.cgi
>
>WHICH displays the message:
>
>"404 Phfft! Ack!
>
>     /djgpp/
>     /
>
>The URL you were trying to get to is
>http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html/zip-picker.cgi
>
>I'll send a note to DJ to have that page fixed."
>
>So, I figure the page is broken. So, I write to DJ. No response.
>I write to the djgpp list, and I get told that the page is fine.

It is.

>I've tried to get to this page using my son's Win95
>machine using IE, and my Red Hat machine using
>Netscape 4.7. What is going on here?

Reload and wait. Unless you can help DJ pay for a faster server...

--
Damian Yerrick
http://pineight.8m.com/

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