On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Devon McCormick wrote:
> Hi Everybody -
> 
> In the past, I've been able to use J's Package Manager while at work thanks
> to Dan's tip about defining and HTTP_PROXY environment variable.  However,
> in recent months it has always failed with a "Connection Error" upon trying
> to get the catalog from the internet with error message "Unexpected error",
> which is not very helpful.
> 
> Has anyone run into this?  Is there any way to get more information about
> why it's failing?

Try type inside terminal

wget -d http://www.jsoftware.com/jal/j602/jal.zip

to see what's gone wrong.

or export http_proxy='......'   before wget if needed. Note that in
linux the name 'http_proxy' must be in lower case.

http_proxy='......' wget -d http://www.jsoftware.com/jal/j602/jal.zip

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