I too ran into this problem late last week with a couple of patches.  I
second the suggestion to include the build parameters in the example in the
installation guide.  I so rarely use those that I stumbled around a bit
before getting things to work.

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"Danny A. van Delft" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> a tip when downloading MPE patches from HPITRC by using the FTP client
> from the HP3K. When downloading patch MPELX36C (for MPE6.0) I had an
> unpleasant surprise after about an hour  (using a 64K dialup line):
> The patch size exceeded the filesize limit imposed by the default FTP
> settings in BLDPARMS.ARPA.SYS and the transfer was aborted. Not nice.
> Perhaps a caveat to include in the "MPE/ix patch installation guide"
> to supply the get command with sufficient build parameters, like "get
> MPELX36C ./MPELX36C;rec=-1,,b,ascii;disc=1000000000".
>
> regards
> Danny A. van Delft   [log in to unmask]