On Thu, 6 May 1999, Gary I Kahn wrote:
|I'm having trouble ftp'ing a file which contains NUL characters.
|The file begins with 32K of NUL characters, in fact, and the most
|that I've been able to ftp is about 2K of the file. The transfer
|usually stops dead after NO bytes have been transferred. It's
|not the only file with which I've had the problem, but it's the
|first file that stopped transferring after nl bytes had been
|moved.
Try reducing the pppd speed option to, say, 9600 and see if that works.
I'd suspect it has something to do with buffer overrun in the modem but
this is admittedly just a guess. The compressed data coming in over the
wire is expanded, and perhaps the compressed null bytes are expanded a
little to quickly for the modem's FIFO buffer to handle.
|The file being ftp'd is
|http://donut.tho.org/redhat-6.0/redhat-6.0-i386.iso.
Hmm.. I *was* going to try my luck but a 571088896 byte file is far too
large for that. You've got a lot more patience than I do. I did download
over 500000 bytes of it with no trouble though.
---
Clifford Kite Not a guru. (tm)
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