Re: New query for low cost PCB CAD that *works*

Chuck Harris wrote:

Robert Baer wrote:

It shouldn't come as any big surprise that the one included with
Internet Explorer doesn't do a good job.  Not even the one that
comes with Mozilla, or Firefox does all that good of a job.  At
least with the Mozilla download manager, you can set how tenacious
it is.

-Chuck

I do not use IE; i *RIPPED* it out by its guts from Win98SE and as much as possible (but impossible to completely) in Win2K. 


Good, very sensible!  I see that you are using Netscape 7.2.  Dare I
presume that you are using Netscape 7.2 for downloading files off of
the web?

I had a lot of trouble with Netscape saying that it had downloaded the
complete file, only to find that it had actually quit after being only
part of the way done.

For FTP downloads, I use ProZilla, which unfortunately for you, only
runs under linux, and other unix like operating systems... but what
I describe will give you an idea of what is possible:

ProZilla goes out to the ftp site, and starts up to 4 different requests
for the file.  The first asks for the first quarter, the second, the second
quarter, the third, the third quarter, and the fourth, the fourth quarter,
and it merrily sucks all four quarters of the file from the site at one
time.  It won't quit until you stop it, or it has successfully downloaded
the entire file.

The server side has no say in whether or not you can resume a download. It
is entirely up to your download manager... and as I said, even the one
in Mozilla, and Firefox is not very good. The one in Netscape seems to be
even worse. The transaction that goes on during a file download is one where
your manager passes the number of the block it wants to the server, and the
server sends the block. Your download manager could ask for the blocks in the
reverse order, or random order if it wanted to. The server side would neither
know, nor care.

Try googling the following words: "download" "manager" "windows"

It should get you a whole pile of download managers that will work under
netscrape on windoze.

One other thing I would suggest you do, is abandon netscape, and download
mozilla suite 1.7 from http://www.mozilla.org

It is a much better implementation than the ad ridden mess that netscape
became after being bought by AOL.

-Chuck
I have had zero problems downloading using NS72 - providing the line stayed connected (dropped only once during a 3Mbyte download).
And i have seen where it had no idea as to the file length - but still zero problems.

So assuming i find a decent DLM that will be happy with NS, how would i "inhibit" the NS DLM and "enable" the !foreign! one?
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