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In article <8711181920.AA04724@ipsa.arpa> bill@IPSA.ARPA (Bill Pase) writes:
>Could someone tell me how to access the files in the archives at Umix.
>I've managed to 'ftp' there and even do the anonymous login, but I've
>been unable to get any kind of directory listing.  My ftp always claims
>there were 0 bytes transfered.  Have I logged on incorrectly or something?
>Thanks in advance ... /bill

You'd probably have gotten help faster by sending me your question via
e-mail... You might also have been able to find more immediate help
from your colleagues where you work instead of posting a question to
the entire world.

From what I've seen, ftp always claims zero data bytes were transferred
when retrieving a directory listing. Maybe this is just a vagary of the
Berkeley Unix we run, maybe it's a genuine bug. Rather, it says zero
bytes at the beginning of the transfer, and shows a proper byte count at
the end of the directory listing.

One thing - if you're a genuine ARPAnet site, you may just be timing out.
Since we are on the NSFnet, and since we have something like a 4800 bps
link to the ARPAnet, it's entirely likely that you just got a really bad
connection... (Actually we have a 56kbps satellite link to NCAR, but that
tends to make routing a bit roundabout if you want to use it...) If you're
using 4.3 BSD, your ftp should have a 'reset' command. Issue that a
couple of times, that usually takes care of skewing and timing problems.

Actually, checking our log files, I see that an anonymous person from
ipsa.arpa has successfully logged in via ftp and retrieved a couple files,
so I guess your problem has already been solved. Maybe the networks are
clearing up this weekend...?
  -- Howard Chu
	University of Michigan Computing Center, Unix Project