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From: scott@rdahp.UUCP (Scott Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: anonymous ftp on a 3b2
Message-ID: <227@rdahp.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 89 02:31:07 GMT
References: <3745@sdsu.UUCP> <2264@laidbak.UUCP>
Reply-To: scott@rdahp.UUCP (Scott Hammond)
Organization: R & D Associates, Marina del Rey, CA
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In article <2264@laidbak.UUCP> stevea@laidbak.UUCP (Steve Alexander) writes:
>In article <3745@sdsu.UUCP> arul@sdsu.UUCP (Arul Ananthanarayanan) writes:
>>[/bin/ls doesn't work for anon ftp on 3b2/310, SYSV 3.1, WIN3b/2.1]

>It sounds like your ls was linked with the shared C library (-lc_s).
>In ~ftp, make a directory called ``shlib'' and copy /shlib/libc_s to
>~ftp/shlib.  That should fix the problem.

That is very interesting.  The AT&T hotline response to an identical
question though involving WIN3b/1.1 was to upgrade to a newer WIN/3b. 
At the time, upgrading was not an option.  My solution was to use a
SYSV 2.1.2 /bin/ls binary from a 3b15 (my approach was trial&error
"what's wrong with ftp and ls and what can I try"), never thinking that
I was having shared library problems.  Now I know why this worked.
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