From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke) Subject: Re: b20: win98: more is missing (still) 12 Nov 1998 14:38:12 -0800 Message-ID: <74fE9FGppfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi Graham, [...] >>ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/porters/Hirmke >_Michael/B20 > >Are these files available from anywhere else? The connection between me >and franken.de must be very poor, as I am having considerable problems >getting these files. The transfer rate, when it is working is very slow >(10s or 100s bytes/sec) and the connection keeps dropping after a few >10s of Kbytes. I have managed (eventually) to get less and man, but >attempts to download ncurses and groff (which seem to be needed for less >and man to work, and which are larger downloads) have so far never run >to completion. Oops, don't know, why you have these problems. We have switched 10MBit to a 155MBit backbone, which normally is very fast ! Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke | Telefon +49 (911) 557999 Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664 90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de | WWW http://aquarius.franken.de/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".