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Subject: Re: Amiga networking (was:AS225 software bugs and quirks)
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From: swalton@aurora.csun.edu (Stephen Walton)
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1991 21:22:47 GMT
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In article <3192@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
writes:

>>* ftp may die when connecting to a site with a long welcome message
>
>It also has a tendency to 'get' to my boot partition instead of my CWD.
>
This seems to be Amiga ftp's default behavior---it always starts with a
local directory of SYS:.  I've just had to get used to doing an lcd command
right away before transferring files.  So, I usually use rcp.

-- 
Stephen Walton, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Univ. Northridge
    "Lately it occurs to me/What a long, strange trip it's been"