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From: fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Anybody else having abcfd20 problems?
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.101008.1291@dayton.saic.com>
Date: 2 Nov 90 14:10:08 GMT
References: <15356@brahms.udel.edu>
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Organization: Science Applications Intl. Corp., Dayton, Ohio
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In article <15356@brahms.udel.edu>, don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes:
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> 
> 	I've been trying to ftp to abcfd20 lately and been completely
> unsuccesful, despite the fact that I've connected there many times in the
> past from this machine without a problem.  It always dies the same way:
> I connect, log in, and it starts to print the opening message.  It gets
> to the second line of the note about only posting freely redistributable
> stuff, then freezes every time.  No amount of waiting seems to help,
> and I've tried various pseudo-random control characters, etc, to continue,
> but with no luck except that a ^C will cause it to print the next line, then
> stop completely.  It always stops at exactly the same point and behaves 
> exactly the same way.

	I have had no problem getting onto abcfd20.  It sounds like your FTP
software doesn't like multiple welcome type messages.  Looks like it's your
FTP software that is in error.  Contact your system manager of the vendor that
supplies the software and have them fix it.


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