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From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer)
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Subject: Re: problem with anonymous ftp and get command
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Date: 9 Jan 90 23:54:34 GMT
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In article <9518@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> lynch@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Tim Lynch) writes:
>We've come across a problem using anonymous ftp under HP-UX.
># the next line demo's the problem 
>
>ftp> get info-mac/00readme.txt
>ftp: info-mac: No such file or directory

I think I had this problem once... I solved it by creating the directory
"info-mac" on the local machine. Ftp will then drop 00readme.txt into that
directory. 

Alternatively, you could also do "get info-mac/00readme.txt 00readme.txt"
though I must admit I haven't tried this latter method.

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