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From: mohamed@hscfvax.UUCP (750025@Mohamed_el_Lozy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ftp - netin: network is unreachable
Message-ID: <429@hscfvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 14:22:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: hscfvax.429
Posted: Thu Jun 18 14:22:48 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jun-87 14:02:26 EDT
References: <98@decvax.UUCP> <737@hao.UCAR.EDU>
Reply-To: mohamed@hscfvax.UUCP (750025@Mohamed_el_Lozy)
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
Lines: 12
Keywords: ftp, GNU, mit-prep
Summary: I had no problems
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In article <737@hao.UCAR.EDU> woods@hao.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) writes:
>In article <98@decvax.UUCP> michaud@decvax.UUCP (Jeff Michaud) writes:
>>
>>	I have have been trying to "get" the GNU-C compressed archive
>>	from mit-prep, and have not been successful yet
>
Either prep is hopelessly overloaded (a likely
>possibility) to the point where no one can really FTP anything from them,
>or there is a problem on the MIT local network.
I dont think prep is overloaded to the point of being unusable.  Last Saturday
I had no difficulty getting the compressed gnuemcs distrib (3.5Meg) at
a normal time (mid-morning).  Never tried it on weekdays, though.