Message-ID: <19991026170615.79776.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Originating-IP: [137.112.111.210] From: "Damian Yerrick" To: onlymice AT javanet DOT com Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Zip Picker.... Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 12:06:13 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com >From: "Andrew L. Blais" >To: Damian Yerrick >Subject: Zip Picker.... >Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:35:08 -0400 > >Hello there: > >This is what happens. First, I click on > >http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ > >I get a nice page with the zip picker link. > >Second, I click on the zip picker link: > >http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html > >I get a page that ends with: "Select a suitable FTP site: " > >That's it. No list. Not a thing. Try clicking refresh. Delorie Software's site is known for being slow; it's run either off a 56K modem, ISDN, or ADSL (don't know which). >So: I add a "/" to the end of *that* address, and I get to: > >http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html/ Don't do that. >Lo and Behold!!! There is the zip picker page. So, I select what >I want, and at the bottom of the page -- where it says: "Tell me >which files I need" -- I click. > >THAT brings me to: http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html/zip-picker.cgi > >WHICH displays the message: > >"404 Phfft! Ack! > > /djgpp/ > / > >The URL you were trying to get to is >http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html/zip-picker.cgi > >I'll send a note to DJ to have that page fixed." > >So, I figure the page is broken. So, I write to DJ. No response. >I write to the djgpp list, and I get told that the page is fine. It is. >I've tried to get to this page using my son's Win95 >machine using IE, and my Red Hat machine using >Netscape 4.7. What is going on here? Reload and wait. Unless you can help DJ pay for a faster server... -- Damian Yerrick http://pineight.8m.com/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com