Thanks I didn't think of that but I used lynx in Cygwin to download the gzips and it worked. However, I've now found that Self/x86 doesn't work with the latest version of Cygwin so I'm downloading Knoppix but I'll have a dedicated linux box soon so should be a bit simpler after that.

Thanks, Phil

--- In self-interest@yahoogroups.com, Jecel Assumpcao Jr <jecel@m...> wrote:

On Friday 16 May 2003 16:18, Phil Thompson wrote:

...

Hi there a college mentioned Self to me when we were having a

chat

...

about pure OO languages so I thought I'd give it a go.

I've downloaded the Cygwin version and managed to get the VM#

prompt

...

but can't download either of the snapshots.

The file sizes are:

Demo.snap.gz 12.9MB Empty.snap.gz 15.8MB

How odd... the uncompressed size of Demo.snap for me is 12478724

bytes,

which gzip can reduce down to just 3312508 bytes. I would try to

just

rename Demo.snap.gz to Demo.snap and see if Self can't load it. If

it

is uncompressed, then the first hundred bytes or so are actually

in

text form and you should be able to read them using "less"

or "more".

Good luck! -- Jecel