=> 5/31/00 6:52:44 PM EDT, arning@charm.net => << It's in the same directory- I just checked. ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/2.8/SqueakVM2.8beta.sea.bin Maybe you need to hit the refresh button on your browser. >>
I think I've found the problem. It's in Internet Explorer. I think I'm working with a quite recent version. About says: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 Version: 5.00.2614.3500 Update Versions:;q235666;q235667 but it chokes (quietly) on an ftp: URL, and just says 'The page cannot be displayed'. And I'm using AOL 5.0 (the installation of which is now suspect, I've only been using it about a month). I'm sure that, when I was previously seeing only one file in the 2.8 directory, that I was getting the cached version of the page.
AOL has a mickey mouse FTP client. It reminds me a bit of video games on the TI home computer (I can't remember the model number, something like 99/4, but the one that they cleared out at 99 bucks in the early '80s <How many remember the Sinclair? Please raise your hands. How many owned one? How many tried to write a nuclear power plant welding records database in Sinclair BASIC?>). AOL's mickey mouse FTP client sees the files. So I believe MS IE should be able to see them (when you're using AOL to directly access Internet resources, it silently steps across to a mini-IE -- which is sort of strange for a company that owns Netscape).
Arrrgggghhh! (Lucy pulled the football away again) They make absolutely sure that the Multi-Media stuff works right; it does, I can get Bloomberg New Radio (and many other things I haven't asked for) easily. Why in God's name would FTP URLs cease to work? !!!
ARRRGGGGHHH !!!
To repeat: Why in God's name would FTP URLs cease to work? !!!
Cheers, Jerry. ____________________________
Jerry L. Archibald systemObjectivesIncorporated ____________________________
"When all is lost, try to find something." :-o
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