Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!bbn.com!tgoodman From: tgoodman@bbn.com (Todd Goodman) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: FTP grape.ecs.clarkson.edu Message-ID: <44846@bbn.COM> Date: 27 Aug 89 18:13:02 GMT References: <4315@cps3xx.UUCP> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: Todd Goodman@bbn.com (Todd Goodman) Organization: BBN Communications Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 52 In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: >In article <4315@cps3xx.UUCP> usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes: > > >FTP: grape.ecs.clarkson.edu [128.153.13.196], user anonymous, password guest. > > It seems that your ftp is incompatible with the ftp here. >Right. > > [ Explanation of grape's ftp server deleted for brevity ] > >And, sure enough, many FTP clients don't implement >continuation lines. I have no sympathy for the users of these FTP >clients. While it's true that continuation lines are in the RFC, don't you think it's a little harsh to have no sympathy for the USERS? In most cases the users have little to do with the IMPLEMENTION of their FTP clients. It's the implementors perhaps who deserve to be strung up. :-) > >If you are one of the unfortunate users of these broken FTP clients, then >you can (and *should*, most emphatically), FTP to uunet.uu.net, cd to >/networking, and get ftp.tar.Z. Uncompress and untar it, compile it, and >install it as globally as you can. As an unfortunate user of one of these broken FTP clients I did just that. However, it should be mentioned that this FTP client seems to be for 4.3 BSD (which SunOS 3.5 is not). It is very easy to get working in 4.2 BSD though, there are a few changes in ftp.c to make and a couple of functions to write (the hostent structure only returns one h_addr, not a list of them and strcasecmp() and strncasecmp() need to be worked written). > >The only broken FTP clients that I know of are BSD Unix clients. If there >are any others then I will reconsider my use of continuation lines. Until >then, go back one paragraph and re-read. > >-- >--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu])|(70441.205@compuserve.com)| > (Russ.Nelson@f360.n260.z1.fidonet.org)|(BH01@GEnie.com :-) Well, SunOS 3.5 FTP clients don't understand continuation lines (unless we don't have something configured correctly here, in which case I'm sure many people will let me know). You may have been including SunOS as BSD Unix at any rate. This certainly is not meant as a complaint to you since I HIGHLY appreciate the service you provide (for free too! :-) ). +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ | Todd Goodman, BBN Communications, Inc. tgoodman@bbn.com | | Disclaimer: I never speak for anyone but myself. | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Right theory, wrong universe." =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+