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From: jdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: SIMTEL20 file transfers never finish -- am I doing something wrong?
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Date: 18 Apr 89 16:53:10 GMT
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When I want a big file from SIMTEL20, I sometimes have to try 10 or 15 times
before I get the whole thing.  The connection goes idle for 5 or 10 minutes,
the file I'm receiving never gets any bigger, and I finally just kill the
transfer and try again.

	ftp> get gawk210.arc
	200 Port 11.214 at host 128.230.1.55 accepted.
	150 Retrieve of PD1:<MSDOS.AWK>GAWK210.ARC.1 started.
	^C
	451 ? Unexpected close of data connection.
	421 Autologout - job idle too long
	local: gawk210.arc remote: gawk210.arc
	45560 bytes received in 6.9e+02 seconds (0.065 Kbytes/s)
	ftp> quit

I've always figured that this was just "the way it goes" when ftp'ing to
SIMTEL20.  Should I wait longer before I kill the ftp job?  Any other ideas?
Thanks...

--Jerry Peek; Syracuse University Academic Computing Services; Syracuse, NY
  jdpeek@rodan.acs.syr.edu, SUNRIS::JDPEEK, jdpeek@suvm.bitnet
  +1 315 443-3995