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From: Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Trouble downloading Ghostscript 9.16
Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 07:37:04 +0100
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Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> writes:

> Unfortunately, when I try to download the
> file:
> http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/gs916w32.exe
>
> it aborts after only a few percent of the
> file has been downloaded.  I have tried this
> a dozen times now, with the same result.

Huh. It downloaded wholly on the first try for me:

/tmp$ wget 'http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/gs916w32.exe'
--2015-05-17 07:26:56--  http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/gs916w32.exe
Resolving downloads.ghostscript.com (downloads.ghostscript.com)... 188.121.46.128
Connecting to downloads.ghostscript.com (downloads.ghostscript.com)|188.121.46.128|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 14136429 (13M) [application/x-msdownload]
Saving to: ‘gs916w32.exe’

gs916w32.exe        100%[=====================>]  13.48M   834KB/s   in 17s    

2015-05-17 07:27:13 (829 KB/s) - ‘gs916w32.exe’ saved [14136429/14136429]


If it is still failing for you, the problem might be at your end;
perhaps you could try downloading it to some other host and using rsync
or suchlike to get it to its final destination.

(I'm sure it must be mirrored elsewhere, I just don't know where
either!)

-- Mark