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  Trouble downloading Ghostscript 9.16 Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2015-05-16 22:40 -0600
    Re: Trouble downloading Ghostscript 9.16 Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2015-05-17 07:37 +0100
      Re: Trouble downloading Ghostscript 9.16 Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2015-05-17 10:02 -0600
        Re: Trouble downloading Ghostscript 9.16 Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2015-05-17 18:27 +0200
          Re: Trouble downloading Ghostscript 9.16 Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2015-05-25 10:03 -0600

#2275 — Trouble downloading Ghostscript 9.16

Hi,

I am running Ghostscript 8.53 (2005-10-20),
so decided it was time to upgrade to the
latest version.

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.

Is there a mirror site for this file?

-- 
Many thanks,
Martin Leese
E-mail: please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID
Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/

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#2276

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

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#2277

Mark Carroll wrote:
> 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:
...
> If it is still failing for you, the problem might be at your end;
...
> (I'm sure it must be mirrored elsewhere, I just don't know where
> either!)

I eventually found a copy at:
ftp://ftp.uibk.ac.at/pub/software/win32/gs916w32.exe

It downloads fine from this FTP host, so
there must be an incompatibility between my
client and the original HTTP host.  Welcome
to the wonderful world of computing.

-- 
Regards,
Martin Leese
E-mail: please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID
Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/

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#2278

On 17-5-2015 18:02, Martin Leese wrote:
> Mark Carroll wrote:
>> 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.
>>


> there must be an incompatibility between my
> client and the original HTTP host.  Welcome
> to the wonderful world of computing.
>

and, what kind of client would that be?
on what OS?

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#2285

Luuk wrote:

> On 17-5-2015 18:02, Martin Leese wrote:
>> there must be an incompatibility between my
>> client and the original HTTP host.  Welcome
>> to the wonderful world of computing.
> 
> and, what kind of client would that be?
> on what OS?

Opera 10.10 under Windows 95.  (There are
not many of us left.)

It turned out that I actually needed
Ghostscript 8.60.  I also discovered:
     http://www.filewatcher.com/

which is wonderful.  This also lets me use
an FTP client, which seems to be a lot more
robust (read the label on the packet; "File
Transfer Protocol").

-- 
Regards,
Martin Leese
E-mail: please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID
Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/

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