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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!wupost!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) Subject: [386BSD] Got XS3 server finally (was: Re: Ported software list.) Message-ID: <1992Nov12.070302.2144@autelca.ascom.ch> Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland References: <20408.9211090134@thor.cf.ac.uk> <1992Nov9.145903.19244@autelca.ascom.ch> <1992Nov10.134110.20932@rtpnc.epa.gov> <1992Nov10.165438.21077@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 07:03:02 GMT Lines: 54 hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >In article <1992Nov10.134110.20932@rtpnc.epa.gov> fty@bizarre.rtpnc.epa.gov (Frank Terhaar-Yonkers) writes: >>Is anyone else having a problem? I show 750 accesses to this archive in the >>past two months and no other complaints ... >> >>- Frank >> [ text about problems to connect to sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov deleted - NB.] >Hi, >Where will you like for me to place XS3 that is convenient for you >to access? With a lot of trouble, but finally with success, I was able to get the XS3 server from sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov ! I will put it up for anon-ftp here in Switzerland. Some background for those interested (others can hit 'n' now): Because I don't have direct ftp-access I am using a ftp-mail service. That's why I can't try to connect to sunvis.rtpnc... at any time I would like and I can't try it 100 times a day. I tried several times to connect to the ftp-site (mentioned above) via mail. I got just one connection, did a directory listing of the directory pub/386bsd/incoming and saw a symbolic link for all the X programs to a different directory :-( That means, XS3 is not in the directory mentioned in several postings. Although you might still get it if you type in the (sym-linked) name, you can't determine the size of the file this way ! Now, I tried to get a directory listing of the other directory several times. No success whatsoever. I have to know the size of the file (and its name, of course) before I can try and get it. I won't download via ftp-mail several MBytes of programs or sources, regardless of what it is. Finally, it is expensive over here :-( Even if I got a connection, as soon as the mode was changed from binary to ascii there was a timeout and that's it. Frank Terhaar-Yonkers (thanks a lot for your help) send me a directory listing of the real directory (pub/386bsd/X) in which the XS3 server is stored. Yesterday, I tried again to connect to the server and after the fifth try (four were done by the ftp-mail server, but I didn't give up and send the job again), I finally got the XS3 server. It seems to me, that if I don't do any directory listing it might be fine sometimes. I don't know. As Frank told me, there are a lot of hops between my ftp-mail server and his ftp-site. Perhaps the timeout is not set right for this number of hops. Unfortunately, I can't change the timeout on the ftp-mail server ! >As for the size is about 900K uncompressed and 540K compressed... Now, I know it, thanks. Norbert. -- Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland Phone: +41 31 999 65 52 FAX: +41 31 999 65 44 Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt