Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ns-mx!umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu From: mtpins@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Firestar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: where have my ftp sites gone?? Message-ID: <3924@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Date: 15 Jan 91 04:50:58 GMT References: <651@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Sender: news@ns-mx.uiowa.edu Lines: 34 From article <651@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, by dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann): > > First of all, I want to thank you for providing ftp access to Mr. Fish's quite > large library of freely distributable software. (Because second I'm going to > complain ;) You're very welcome. > > It seems like your ftp server has some broken software. Specifically, ls > doesn't recognise any flags. Also, it doesn't seem to understand wildcards at What flags are you using? It seems that isca is defaulted to 'prompt off'. If you are coming in with the -i option, you are turning it back on. > all (when used with the 'mget' command). This one is a real problem (and one that I wasn't aware of, thanks for the tip) I'll talk to the system ghod and try to get that fixed ASAP. I'll also try to convince him to default to 'prompt on', since the rest of the world seems to do it that way. > > It'd be swell if you could fix that (especially the wildcards). > Agreed. I'll leave a note here as soon as we get it fixed. -- ***************************************************************************** * Michael Pins (Firestar) | Internet: mtpins@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu * * ISCA's Amiga Librarian | * *****************************************************************************