Author: Lenard Spencer
Date: 14:29:03 10/23/00
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On October 23, 2000 at 03:13:13, pavel wrote: >On October 22, 2000 at 23:08:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 22, 2000 at 17:43:15, Lenard Spencer wrote: >>> >>> (snipped for sanity's sake) >>> >>>BTW, I finally got the BOOK.BIN file, with (would you believe???) AOL's "Keyword >>>FTP". All that after both IE and Netscape choked at the same point in the file. >>> Go figure.... >> >> >>That is just "habit" programming. 99.999% of the time, both ifs are >>executed, since no bishops are hung. When one is on the key square, then >>the other square is not checked... >> >>I doubt it matters at all how it is done. >> >>No idea what would hang an ftp connection, other than a very poor internet >>link that loses too many packets... > >i think he is right, when you try to download book.bin file the browser executes >it in .txt format, as a result hangs (on slow connection). Better idea is to >have the books in zip file ;) > > >Pavel What is even stranger is that I am on a DSL connection. Probably the difference between "standard" FTP and AOL's flavor of FTP...
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