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Article #200Re: NCFTP
From: Tonnie Geraets
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:23
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:23
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gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:
[about NcFTP]
>Yeah, but it has problems -- it doesn't work well with the
>wuarchive-style ftpd, which will do automagic tar/Z-ing of dirs/files
>on the fly. ncftp(1) seems to check if the thing to be gotten exists
>before getting it (this is because if the :/foo/bar is a directory, it
>will cd to that directory; if it's a file, it will get it).
Have you reported this problem to the author? If not, please do so. I'm
under the impression that the author, Michael Gleason
(mgleason@cse.unl.edu), is very willing to fix bugs and to add usefull
features.
[...]
>Nat :-)
-Tonnie.
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Tonnie Geraets E-mail: tonnie@ctrl.phys.tue.nl
Department of Physics Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!tnb.phys.tue.nl!tnnrtg From: tnnrtg@tnb.phys.tue.nl (Tonnie Geraets) Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin Subject: Re: NCFTP Message-ID: <tnnrtg.727968188@tnb.phys.tue.nl> Date: 25 Jan 93 13:23:08 GMT References: <1993Jan17.180707.7120@alf.uib.no> <GNAT.93Jan18130643@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz><1993Jan18.084109.7505@alf.uib.no><1993Jan20.112645.4119@yarra-glen.aaii.oz.au> <GNAT.93Jan21104634@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz> Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl Reply-To: tnnrtg@ctrl.phys.tue.nl Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology - NL Lines: 25