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From: conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: mysterious XferIt problems (Was: Re: Downloading files in one-go?)
Summary: XferIt seems to be broken...
Keywords: Download, ftp, telnet, BYU telnet, HyperFTP, XferIt
Message-ID: <6816@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 19 May 91 04:59:50 GMT
References: <1991May17.012220.8243@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
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In article <1991May17.012220.8243@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr) writes:
>conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili) writes:
>>I suspect it has something to do with our VERY crufty, VERY slow LocalTalk net
>>Anyone ELSE with this problem?  Like I and Eric said, XferIt looks great;  I'd
>>like to use it...!
>>
>I've had one more report of such behavior (plus one news article following
>Conrad's). LocalTalk isn't the issue - I'm experiencing this directly on
>Ethernet, connected via an IBM 8209 to a 16MB T/Ring...     E.
>
>-- 
>Eric Behr, Illinois State University, Mathematics Department
>Internet: ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu    Bitnet: ebehr@ilstu

Me again.  I guess I started this discussion.  I too got a couple of e-mails
from people who had problems similar to those in my original posting.  So, in
addition to the several postings we have seen here about XferIt problems, and
Eric's additional mail, and my additional mail, I am tempted to condemn XferIt.
Apparently it simply does not work in some (many?) setups.

It is frustrating that it seems to work so well for so many people.  And not
the rest of us!  I feel left out!  Oh, well....

I _really_ doubt that the problems will be solved by any of the simple methods
that some of the people who have it working have suggested.  Too many of us who
know what we're doing have too many other TCP/IP applications running smoothly
and have tried too many reasonable things ourselves....

At this point I am content to write this program off until it gets fixed or 
someone comes up with a _real_ suggestion as to what our problem might be (and
a reasonable explanation to back it up)....  With a perfectly adequate program
like HyperFTP to use in the meantime, I am not going to waste any more of my
time wondering why XferIt doesn't work or trying to fix it.  And from the looks
of the other reports, I would recommend that any of you out there who are hav-
ing troubles with it yourselves do likewise....

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