> I wanted to test ghc-pre-4.06 and had made three attempts
> per week to
> download
> http://research.microsoft.com/~simonmar/ghc/snapshot/
> ghc-pre-4.06-20000117-src.tar.gz
FYI, pre-release snapshots are now available as
http://research.microsoft.com/~simonmar/ghc/snapshot/ghc-4.06-src.tar.gz
> via netscape program.
> After 1-2 hours it gets about 50% of the file and than
> somewhat breaks,
> gets out of downloading to the main menu.
> There is much of the free space on the disk.
> Earlier, when ghc-4.04 appeared, I downloaded it successfully
> by the same
> tool.
> Being not an expert in this subject, I wonder, which program
> breaks the
> downloading.
> May it be of research.microsoft.com service?
I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were some problem with
research.microsoft.com. Has anyone else had any trouble downloading stuff
from here? Should I report a bug?
Cheers,
Simon