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From: <root@mai...>
Subject: [9fans] Re: download time?
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:00:49 GMT

In article <969710065.235147@news>,
	Alexander L <alex-sci@fre...> writes:

> Be sure to download it at night time :-)
> With download managers that can auto dailup and disconnect itself.
> 
> Good luck

Indeed.  How can you do this when there is no access to the
location of the plan9.9gz file?

The web page has a link to the file by way of (apparently) a
non-existent path.  Moreover, the "directory" after "/magic/9down"
is different (and very long) each time you register to download.

You can access plan9.bell-labs.com as an FTP site, which reveals
only the TeX file and web pages, no plan9.9gz nor any path to it.


--Jim Howard  <jiho@mai...>