Fetching the EditPad Pro Demo from the distributor's website,
http://download.jgsoft.com/editpad/SetupEditPadProDemo.exe
I tried Internet Explorer, PC-Lynx, two versions of links, and three
versions of Firefox. I also tried Lynx on a Unix machine and wget and
GetBot on the Windows machine.
IE, PC-LYNX, and all versions of Firefox truncated the file at a multiple
of 2000 hexadecimal. An earlier version of links corrupted the file by
changing all linefeeds to carriage-return/linefeed pairs even though
binary download was selected. A later version of links, wget, GetBot and
the version of Lynx on the Unix machine all downloaded the file with no
corruption or truncation.
A detailed record of my results (files numbered after download so
I could keep them separate and keep track of them; if you try
downloading the same file your file sizes may differ if a newer
build is now available):
SETUPEDI EXE 1,942,590 08-16-04 1:57p SETUPEDI.EXE
Fetched with lynx on CCN[1] and downloaded via ZModem
SETUPE~2 EXE 1,941,504 08-16-04 11:47a SetupEditPadProDemo2.exe
Downloaded with Firefox 0.8
SETUPE~3 EXE 1,942,590 08-09-04 5:52a SetupEditPadProDemo3.exe
Downloaded with wget
SETUPE~4 EXE 1,941,504 08-16-04 12:27p SetupEditPadProDemo4.exe
Downloaded with Firefox 0.8 again
SETUPE~5 EXE 1,941,504 08-16-04 1:16p SetupEditPadProDemo5.exe
Downloaded with Firefox 0.9.3
SETUPE~6 EXE 1,941,504 08-18-04 2:44a SetupEditPadProDemo6.exe
Downloaded with Firefox 0.8 once again
SETUPE~7 EXE 1,941,504 08-18-04 3:03a SetupEditPadProDemo7.exe
Downloaded with Firefox 0.9.3 again
SETUPE~8 EXE 1,942,590 08-09-04 5:52a SetupEditPadProDemo8.exe
Downloaded with wget again
SETUPE~9 EXE 1,941,504 08-18-04 6:00a SetupEditPadProDemo9.exe
Downloaded with Internet Explorer
SETUPE~1 EXE 1,941,504 08-18-04 6:27a SetupEditPadProDemo10.exe
Downloaded with PC-LYNX
SETUP~10 EXE 1,942,590 08-18-04 7:02a SetupEditPadProDemo11.exe
Downloaded with GetBot
SETUP~11 EXE 1,949,953 08-18-04 7:36a SetupEditPadProDemo12.exe
Downloaded with links [sic] 0.83 (has different icon)
SETUP~12 EXE 1,942,590 08-18-04 7:59a SetupEditPadProDemo13.exe
Downloaded with links [sic] 0.98
SETUPE14 EXE 1,942,590 08-18-04 11:55p SETUPE14.EXE
Fetched with lynx on CCN[1] and downloaded via ZModem, again
SETUP~13 EXE 1,949,953 08-18-04 10:21p SetupEditPadProDemo15.exe
Downloaded with links [sic] 0.83 (has different icon), again
SETUP~14 EXE 1,942,590 08-09-04 5:52a SetupEditPadProDemo16.exe
Downloaded with wget with user-agent string set to same one
as used by links 0.83 -- at same time as download below.
SETUP~15 EXE 1,949,953 08-19-04 4:24a SetupEditPadProDemo17.exe
Downloaded with links [sic] 0.83 (has different icon), again,
this time with wget simultaneously fetching the same file
with the same user-agent string from the same IP address
(see above)
1,942,590 decimal is hexadecimal 1DA43E (the correct file size)
1,941,504 decimal is hexadecimal 1DA000 (file truncated)
1,949,953 decimal is hexadecimal 1DC101 (file corrupted by invalid
end-of-line conversion)
Footnote(s):
[1] CCN: The Chebucto Community Net, which offers PPP accounts and
dial-up text-only accounts with lynx 2.7ac as the "shell". A
download through the text account first downloads the file to the
local server then lynx offers the user the options of (a) saving
it to the user's account filespace, (b) downloading with Kermit,
or (c) downloading with ZModem. I chose the latter. Filename
truncated to DOS 8.3 name since I use a DOS-based terminal program.
I'm not sure what the solution is unless you can fetch the upgrades with
wget.
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