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From: edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: FTP strangeness at dsrgsun (no response to ``dir'')
Keywords: FTP
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Date: 8 May 90 08:13:02 GMT
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In article <1990May7.131415.5753@diku.dk> jensting@skinfaxe.diku.dk
(Jens Tingleff) writes:

   | When doing anonymous FTP to dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu, I can't get any
   | response to the ``dir'' or ``ls -l'' commands. FTP opens an
   | ASCII mode connection, waits, and reports that the transmission
   | is terminated; no data is written to the screen.

Yep. I've the same problem here. Even a simple "ls" fails from one
of our systems (Harris HCX-9). Judging from the fancy message of the
day that is displayed at dsrgsun, Bammi must be running a hacked up
version of FTP; it's probably just a bit to much hacked up ;-)


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