Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!vela!rigel.acs.oakland.edu!w8sdz From: w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: garbo Summary: The garbo MIPS ftp server's nlist command is broken Keywords: garbo, ftp Message-ID: <6585@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 25 May 91 21:48:31 GMT References: Sender: news@vela.acs.oakland.edu Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives Lines: 28 bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd) writes (re garbo ftp problems): >Even so, there was something odd about the connection. Some commands were >followed almost instantaneously with the (unbelievable) assertion that >more than 100000 empty lines had been transferred! I have seen that too, when the nlist command is used and the server has a bug which causes it to send only LF at the end of each line, instead of the CRLF which is *required* by the Internet RFC. The error message I see from my FTP client is "100000 bare line feeds received, and error may have occurred and the file may be incorrect." The number is frequently higher and 100000 and is probably incorrect, but the fact remains that the server is broken. I offered to help with freely-distributable versions of ftpd and inetd but was politely told by the folks at uwasa that the problem was referred to MIPS for solution and it may be "some time" before it is resolved. If anyone from MIPS is reading this I hope they will look into this. It's certainly poor public relations for them. Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of the MSDOS, MISC and CP/M archives at SIMTEL20 [192.88.110.20] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND