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Re: NCFTP

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From: Tonnie Geraets
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.

-- 
Tonnie Geraets                                E-mail: tonnie@ctrl.phys.tue.nl
Department of Physics     Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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