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From: chris@COLUMBIA.EDU (Chris Maio)
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Subject: Re: FTP advisory messages
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Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 04:18:48 EDT
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Rick,

> I was never successful in getting anyone to admit that the TOPS-20 was
> broken and to fix it.

  All the TOPS-20 FTP servers I know return a 504 failure reply to a "SITE
UNIX" command (in contrast to the UNIX server, which mumbles "Please login with
USER first").  On the other hand, you should really be using the SYST command
instead (see RFC959).
							Chris