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From: HAN@FRECP12.BITNET (Jay Thierry HAN)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: garbo
Message-ID: <91144.134028HAN@FRECP12.BITNET>
Date: 24 May 91 17:40:27 GMT
References: <1991May22.153246.6351@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
 <1991May22.170304.10554@mips.mitek.com>
 <1991May23.014014.14043@serval.net.wsu.edu>
 <10901@ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
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Organisation: ECP-Paris France

In article <10901@ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>,
eyer@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Eyer) says:
>
>In article <1991May23.014014.14043@serval.net.wsu.edu>
>msmith@att3b2.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) writes:
>>Is garbo down??  I've tried to ftp in several times but i get..
>>
>>425 unable to open data path, service interupted.
>>
>>or something similar.  wassup?
>
>It's the same for me too, each time I try a 'dir' or 'get' command. I
>sometimes
>manage to get the directory of /pub/pc, but that's all...
>
>Manu   (Emmanuel Eyer)

I think that has to do with the 'slow networks links' that causes BITFTP
to deny access to Finnish sites from European nodes.
There's the mail server (mail to mailserv@garbo.uwasa.fi,
subject: garbo-request), but it seems to have died lately.

Any workaround ?

                                                      J. HAN.