Hey,

No, I've got a supposedly 8M road runner connection - Not that I get that on download.

Anyway, that's not really the problem - it never gets that far. It claims that it's downloading a file that is 3.5G but then downloads what appears to be a valid, empty tar that is only 700 bytes. My tar program opens it, doesn't complain about the format, and says its empty.

I am one of the those dreaded windows users, but I didn't have any trouble downloading the articles ( I know, much smaller). and the download help page seems to say that NTFS on win2k/xp is okay for large files, so I thought I'd be okay.

Anyway, with the apparently valid, empty tar downloading I thought it was worth checking whether the 75G file was really still there. If it is, I should probably look elsewhere for my problems solution.

Thanks for all your help.

Tom

"Steve Bennett" stevage-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote in message news:f1c3529e0605050751r1dd5047cv1c106dcd53fff4b9@mail.gmail.com...

On 5/5/06, Tim Starling

t.starling-JAjqph6Yjy+R5oW9C2NzqLs0Z2mYlMph@public.gmane.org wrote:

...

What happens when you try? I believe some clients have trouble

downloading

...

files bigger than 2GB.

Maybe he was on dialup...?

Steve