[plt-scheme] Re: can't connect to PLaneT on Windows XP machine

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

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Gregg Williams <spamme at innerpaths.net>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> On Jul 29, 10:46 pm, Jon Rafkind <rafk... at cs.utah.edu> 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 planet.plt-scheme.org, 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?
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