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Re: GCC
- To: martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de
- Subject: Re: GCC
- From: Erik Mouw <J dot A dot K dot Mouw at its dot tudelft dot nl>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:29:39 +0200 (MET DST)
- Cc: TGibson at bellhelicopter dot textron dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Eric conspiracy secret labs
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:51:05 +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
>> I have been trying to download the GCC but my browser hangs on the ftp link.
>> I have also tried to connect to the gnu and other mirror ftp sites using my
>> ftp software but it gives a "connect timeout". Could you possibly email me
>> the GCC. I am primarily interested in the Java compiler for win95/98.
>
> Instead of the Web browser, you can try wether the command line ftp
> client is any better, or try to get a good ftp client (like
> wsftp). With ftp, you can restart transmission if the connection times
> out.
Another good tool that supports continue mode over http as well as ftp
links is GNU wget (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/).
> I personally cannot send you binaries - they'd have to go twice over
> my phone line, and I cannot afford that.
Mailing large binaries on unreliable links doesn't make sense anyway. The
SMTP protocol doesn't have a continue mode, so it will try for a couple of
days before it will bounce the message back to the sender.
Erik
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