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From: dhansen@amiganet.chi.il.us (Dave Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Amiga networking (was:AS225 software bugs and quirks)
Message-ID: <dhansen.3260@amiganet.chi.il.us>
Date: 5 Jun 91 22:04:12 GMT
References: <jwright.675828282@cfht.hawaii.edu> <3192@swrinde.nde.swri.edu><1991Jun4.212247.13115@csun.edu>
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Stephen Walton <swalton@aurora.csun.edu> 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.
That is strange.  My AS225 never does an automatic local dir of SYS:.
It is poor that the default directory is always dh0:, regardless of the
current path when FTP is requested.

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