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From: rusty@weyl.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: how to get edist.tar?
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Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 17:19:12 EDT
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In article <3530@cornell.UUCP> jqj@cornell.UUCP (J Q Johnson) writes:
>Due to gateway problems at MIT, it appears to be impossible at the
>moment to FTP edist.tar (or edist.tar.Z) from PREP.AI.MIT.EDU.  I've
>been trying off and on for weeks, and in every case transfers have been
>prematurely terminated.
>
>SIMTEL-20 provides edist.tar, but not edist.tar.Z, and is on MILNET
>rather than ARPAnet.  I'm at the end of a VDH ARPAnet link at < 9600
>baud, and don't want to tie up the link for the half day getting it
>from SIMTEL-20 would take.
>
>Given that some sites do in fact need complete distributions of the
>current GNU Emacs distribution and can't make do with deltas, are there
>any kind souls directly connected to the ARPAnet (preferably at 56Kb)
>who can make edist-17.64.tar.Z available for anonymous ftp?


Be sure that you set ftp for binary/image mode when transferring
either the .tar or the .tar.Z file.  Once I did that then I had no
problem getting it.  This seems to be something new that I didn't have
to do before.
	rusty c. wright
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