Re: technet hang on download

I have seen this happen to a friend of mine. He tried IE4,IE5 and later versions of Netscape but (slightly more often with IE*) could not reliably download. Try Netscape 3.** was my advice and it seemed to work O.K.

Another big problem that I have with IE* is that it actually downloads to a huge *.tmp file first. At the end of the download, it then copies (disk sector to disk sector) this entire *.tmp file in to the actual file name / location you were expecting. Now while its doing this effectively there are no contiguous files (either the tmp file or the final file) that are useable in case of a crash. (It eats up the tmp file as it is writing to the final file). So basically you have to undergo the risk of having this huge download file not making the transition from tmp file to final file. Also an early version of IE4 at least couldn't download more that four ftp files at once! - hardly the mark of a thouroughbred ftp client if you ask me.

David P

 have trouble with large download files

Steve Haynes wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> This might be slightly off topic but I see a few users
> of technet posting here.
>
> I have an annoying problem when downloading from oracle technet
> on large files. ie: I can download the 20Mb bits of 8i
> but not the 100Mb of OAS.
>
> I have a reliable fast network at work, but both IE5 and
> netscape 4.5 seem to hang on the last byte of large files.
> I found an option in IE5 to use web ftp but that didn't
> help either. This is a consistant reoccuring problem and
> means that I can only download those bits that oracle choose
> to split up.
>
> Any thoughts appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
  Received on Mon Mar 20 2000 - 00:00:00 CST