After Jon Cohen let us know about a problem (thanks, Jon),
Mark Bixby noted:

> The web server appears to be incapable of downloading
> Patch/iX coherently.
>
> I've tried 3 times so far, and gotten downloads of 3 different
> lengths, all of which :RESTORE rejects as being prematurely
> truncated.
>
> What's worse, I'm not getting any browser download errors in
> Communicator 4.71.  The download just stops, and you
> assume it's successful but it really isn't.

Shades of the "dysfunctional program family from hell" (a.k.a.
MOVER)....  After the horror stories about MOVER I just
refused to use that for anything critical anymore...  and now
the above...   arrggghhhh !!!!!

I recall HP is going to be switching over to STD files for patches
& etc. "soon" if not already;   if that transition is still in process
I hope HP will expedite...  in any case, from our perspective
ideal solution for ALL online S/W transfers from HP would be:

Have all the info on the web, but for actual transfers have a
STD file on a 3000 at HP that I can FTP directly to my 959;
that I can then RESTORE on my system.  No intermediate
transfers, translations, web servers, etc.  I don't mind having to
do a 30-second edit of an FTP stream file on my end to update
file names;  it isn't something that will need to be done every
day or even every week.  I would much rather do that and
be able to have high confidence that what HP started out with
is what I actually ended up with on my end....

Ken Sletten