Date   : Wed, 02 Feb 1983 06:36:00 EST
From   : Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE@mit-mc.arpa>
Subject: HELP!

I have for thre nights tried to transfer the file Pourne;data
base using lmodem.
       I get maybe a page of it, after which I find myself with
the linnk resumed.  Like the sorcere's apprentice,  I see adn
watch helplessly as the same sentence repeats endlessly.
Control z, escape, and indeed no key I have will do anything.  I
finally must do an at-sign and c to close my connection.  Then I
have to  try to get back onto the net again.

Is the failure of lmodem related to the general flakiness of the
net?  I note that  I can sit here at 0300 and watch the machine
hang for 2 minutes at a time, before it will echo anything
typed; this may cause the lmodem program simply to time out?
(or my receive program times out)?
       Or is there smething special I don' tknow about?  I'd
sure like to be able to get that file here where I can read it.
I intended to use some of the concepts in my column, but this is
ridiculous.

Information appreciated.
JEP