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to: Richard Wheet
from: Louie Gonsalves
date: 1997-01-31 01:57:02
subject: Change to digital service

On a coffee overdose, Richard yelled this to All about Change to digital servic

Hi Richard.

 RW> ====================================================
 FTP> open ftp.sstar.com

 RW> Resolving ftp.star.com... dcache_search: (etc etc)

 RW> Trying 204.27.72.2:21

 RW> ====================================================

 RW> It then just hangs until the computer rests..... any help would be
 RW> appreciated...

I cut down big time on hangups by using the open comman with sstar's IP
address instead of the other way:

open 204.27.72.2

Only hangs in extreme cases where net slowdown is high.


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