Simon Marlow wrote:
> > 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?
I had a similar problem downloading the ghc-4.04p1 source code distribution.
Since data flows pretty slowly between anywhere in Europe or North America
and my machine here in Thailand, I suspected that it was a timeout problem
in which the server aborted the transfer after a certain period of time,
even if it was not completed (however, that was just a guess). I also happen
to be using Netscape (version 4.61). I solved the problem by using the GNU
wget program, which can automatically reconnect and continue a transfer that
was aborted before it finished.
Mark
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