Charles E. Campbell, Jr. wrote: > Tony Mechelynck wrote: > >> Problem 1: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/ (and subdirectories) times out. >> >> Workaround: Use ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/vim/ instead. >> >> Note: >> - ftp.vim.org has multiple DNS: 192.87.102.42 times out; 192.87.102.43 is >> reachable. >> - From there, /pub/vim is a long chain of symlinks, at least one of which >> apparently takes forever to resolve. >> >> > Unfortunately, for neither ftp.vim.org nor ftp.nluug.nl am I able to cd > to pub/vim . As TM said, /pub/vim/ on both sites yields a chain of > symlinks: > ie. /pub -> /vol/1/.CLUSTER/var_ftp/pub > > and from there, > vim -> editors/vim > > However, cd editors and ls vim shows: > vim -> vim -> ../../site/ftp.oce.nl/pub/vim > > Going through ../../site/ftp.oce.nl/pub succeeds, and > vim -> vim -> ../../../vol/2/vim > > Finally, cd ../../../vol/2 succeeds, but > (the directory is empty) > > That is confusing! And, unfortunately, in the words of CJCherryh > (albeit not applied to this), infelicitous. > > Happy New Year! > Chip Campbell
Apparently, the fact that I succeeded to connect to a server where /pub/vim was a vailable, and even to downloaded all patches till 7.1.180, was a one-time non-repeatable fluke: I cn't do it again. For anyone wishing to download the recent patches, here are temporary links until the server comes reliably back online: http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/7.1.170 http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/7.1.171 http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/7.1.172 http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/7.1.173 http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/7.1.174 http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/7.1.175 http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/7.1.176 http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/7.1.177 http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/7.1.178 http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/7.1.179 http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/7.1.180 http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/MD5 http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/MD5SUMS http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/README These are NOT reachable by FTP, except through a username and password which I'm not giving away. Click right on each of the links to the files you need, then "Save Link Target" (or the equivalent for your mailer). Best regards, Tony. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 202. You're amazed to find out Spam is a food. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
