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In article <30cv84$hfg@news1.mcs.com>, Rick Bousquet <rdbousqu@mcs.com> wrote:
>I have been having a problem with connection to hobbes.nmsu.edu. I can 
>connect without a problem. There is 2 ftp programs I have tried to use on 
>this site which work flawlessly with any other site I try to connect to.
>Here is what happens. I connect anonymous to the site to directory
>os2/incoming. Using VXFTP I can't see anything inthe directory or any other
>directories under or above it. If I use FTPPM that comes with IBM's TCP/IP
>I can see everything but the site won't allow me to ftp any thing or to even 
>view a text file. This very frustrating since all OS2 incoming has been moved 
>from cdrom.com to the hobbes.nmsu.edu site. Does anyone have an address to 
>send email hobbes to see if they can answer why I am having this problem.
>Any help would be appreciated.

When you're using ftppm, are you specifying files by typing them in or
are you using the drag/drop method?

if you're using drag/drop, OS/2 may be getting the wrong values.  It
assumes that directory listings are formatted in the standard Unix
"ls -l" way, and can't auto-detect filenames if they aren't.  I
believe Hobbes is a "non-standard" site in this respect.

Go to the "options" menu and select "free form file names".  Now,
before dragging a filename, you'll have to select the name (instead of
just clicking on the line).  But you'll be able to specify the
filenames this way.

I don't know what vxftp is, but if it also tries to calculate
filenames from the output, it may be having similar problems.

BTW, does the text-based ftp.exe program also have problems?

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