Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Sasl-enc: pTaCQWVMS9FFY6tdisyYYw From: soren_andersen AT fastmail DOT fm To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 03:10:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Downloading problems - either won't D/L at all or truncates over 1MB Cc: "$Bill Luebkert" Message-ID: <3C3BB4BF.31375.43076D@localhost> In-reply-to: <02d901c19962$393e8d50$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v4.0, beta 40) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body On 10 Jan 2002 at 10:06, Robert Collins wrote: > Ah, magic word.. firewall. > > I've had problems like this before that I got around by D/L'ing to a faster > > site (my ISP on the backbone) and then D/L'ing from there to my > > dialup PC. > > The amount of data that I need to do this with this time would make it a > > hassle to do for this situation, but I will if I can't resolve it any other way. > If you've had problems like this before, take a clue: Your environment > is broken. Before I got ADSL I routinely downloaded 20-30Mb files on a > 33.6 modem. I am not behind a firewall but have also had various problems similar to some of those reported by $Bill: servers that hung, file downloads that were reported by setup.exe during the install phase as "incomplete," and so on. Not the specific file size limit problem $Bill is reporting, I need to add to be precise. How I have handled the obstacles I have experienced --since I believed that they were apparently "endemic" to the Cygwin setup system as it is currently designed -- was just to perservere -- sometimes losing hours of time in the process -- until I could finally get a good setup run. The most recent setup.exe is a major improvement in terms of clarity, I gave a huge sigh of relief and wanted to stand up and cheer when I saw the totally new heirarchical display style. That part of what's been accomplished is just great. I believe that problems may exist on the server network side or with the programming involved in that. Bearer of bad news? Shoot the messenger? Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/