Bill McCarthy wrote:
On Tue 10-Oct-06 9:26pm -0600, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Bill McCarthy wrote:
Hello Vim List,
Since yesterday, 4 files in the dos/autoload directory
cannot be downloaded - it doesn't appear to matter which FTP
client is used.
The four problem files are:
netrw.vim
tar.vim
vimball.vim
zip.vim
The URL for the directory of these files is:
ftp://ftp.home.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/dos/autoload
Those files have been recently updated. If your download problem isn't yet
fixed by now, try the corresponding files in
ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/autoload/ . They will have LF-only ends-of
files (which makes them slightly shorter and not Notepad-compatible) but Vim
should have no problem using them (if your 'fileformats' includes "unix",
which is the default).
I copied the that directory to an empty local directory.
The copy worked fine except for 4 files - the ones mentioned
above. The files that did copy had unix CRs.
We-e-ell, that's strange. Something must have gone wrong on the FTP servers.
I updated my runtime files a few hours ago from the rsync server; but from a
"long" directory listing, I notice that the four files above (which are dated
14-Aug-2006) plus netrwSettings.vim (dated 9-Oct-2006) have permissions
-rw----r-- : i.e., they are apparently readable by everyone except members of
the owning group (which is a weird set of permissions). I guess the maintainer
of the files, or the owner of the servers, should run "chmod 644" on them.
(IIUC, the maintainer of all those files is Dr. Chip so I add him on the Cc:
list.)
If you have a version of rsync you may try using that: it worked for me. The
command I use (which was mentioned in a recent post in a different thread, and
which I repeat here) is
cd ~/.build/vim/vim70
rsync -avzcP --delete --exclude="/dos/" ftp.nluug.nl::Vim/runtime/ ./runtime
I suppose a trivial modification would be enough to make it fit your setup. On
my system, the above lists files deleted or downloaded. "rsync --version" gives:
rsync version 2.6.3 protocol version 28
Copyright (C) 1996-2004 by Andrew Tridgell and others
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, acls, symlinks, batchfiles,
inplace, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums, SLP
rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU
General Public Licence for details.
Best regards,
Tony.
