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From: syrjanen@serifos.Helsinki.FI (Seppo Syrjanen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet 2.2 bug in mput mget, etc on PC
Keywords: NCSA 2.2 FTPBIN mget bug
Message-ID: <10189@hydra.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 29 Dec 90 00:04:40 GMT
References: <2825@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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In article <2825@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu.UUCP (Clarence Wilkerson) writes:
>In the commands that require processing a list sent from
>the remote back to the PC, the PC version does not correctly
>detect the end of the list, and after performing the asked

This is a genuine bug. Unfortunately fixing it introduces another (mget
works ONCE, then hangs).  The problem is in lower layers of code (TCP
etc), so I switched to CUTCP, which seems to accept our old configuration
file and works ok.

>Clarence Wilkerson

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