Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!kent From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: Amiga networking (was:AS225 software bugs and quirks) Message-ID: <3251@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> Date: 5 Jun 91 13:56:06 GMT References: <3192@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> <1991Jun4.212247.13115@csun.edu> Sender: news@swrinde.nde.swri.edu Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas Lines: 38 In article <1991Jun4.212247.13115@csun.edu> swalton@aurora.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) writes: >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. Well, two things are different about this behavior than what I observed: 1) ftp wrote to my boot partition, which was a 750k OFS partition with just enough in it to bring things up. Sys: was assigned to a FFS partition. If your SYS: is what you boot off of, then it may be behaving the same. 2) I could lcd all I wanted, and still, a 'get' would try to write to my boot partition, which usually didn't have enough room. I gave up using ftp on the Amiga & now rlogin to a unix box, ftp, & then NFS copy to the Amiga. ------------------------------------------------------------- One more thing that is sorely missing from the tcp/ip software is not being able to use a nameserver. I hesitated putting this one in in my earlier posting, since C= doesn't seem to see the need in providing this. I don't know if this is an implementation problem with the current tcp/ip software and C= doesn't want to go to the trouble, or if they really don't think it is necessary. Yes, nameserver service is a NECESSITY these days. (If anyone wants to discuss this with me, PLEASE contact me :^) Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute (512) 522-2882 Internet : kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu UUCP : $ {cs.utexas.edu, gatech!petro, sun!texsun}!swrinde!kent