I was having the same problem yesterday. I my case it would just hang with no message. Fortunately, it was my own packages I was downloading and I used the command line to install them. But it worked fine today when I had to reload them. Doug <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Gregg Williams <<a href="mailto:spamme@innerpaths.net">spamme@innerpaths.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> It's been a while since I've been on my Windows machine (I normally use Mac OS X), so it took a while for me to remember to escalate to the time-honored "reboot and see if that helps" strategy. It did--I got a different error message. That experience reminded me to try the next step: reinstall and see if that helps. Once I did that, downloads from PLaneT worked first time. #*@$?#& Windows.... Thanks for checking the server; that hadn't occurred to me. <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Jul 29, 10:46 pm, Jon Rafkind <<a href="mailto:rafk...@cs.utah.edu">rafk...@cs.utah.edu</a>> wrote: > Gregg Williams wrote: > > I'm trying to get PLT Scheme to work on a Windows XP machine, and I > > can't add needed modules from PLaneT. When I do so in the customary > > way, I get the following error: > > > --- > > require: PLaneT could not download the requested package: tcp-connect: > > connection to <a href="http://planet.plt-scheme.org" target="_blank">planet.plt-scheme.org</a>, port 80 failed (at step 4: An > > operation was attempted on something that is not a socket.; errno= > > 10038) in: (planet lizorkin/ssax:2:0/ssax) > > --- > > Looks like its saying your local PLT client could not connect to the > remote Planet server. I just checked (via telnet) and I can connect just > fine. Maybe its just a transient error? How many times did you try to > connect? > > Actually the error looks slightly more serious, what version of PLT are > you using? > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > <a href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme" target="_blank">http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme</a> _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: <a href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme" target="_blank">http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>