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From: marmen@bcara128.bnr.ca (Rob Marmen 1532773)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Help with anonymous FTP
Message-ID: <1066@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
Date: 8 Mar 90 13:34:33 GMT
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In article <21036@bcsaic.UUCP>, vince@bcsaic.UUCP (Vince Skahan) writes:
> You folks sure seem to be making a lot of headaches for yourselves
> getting a product that will never wrk into production.
> 
> Doesn't the SR10.x documentation and maybe help files rather clearly
> state that anonymous FTP is not supported undmr Domain/OS ???

  Under sr10.1, man ftpd documents how anonymous ftp works. There is no
  disclaimer that it is not supported/implemented. However, the sr10.2 
  man page has a disclaimer in it.
> 
> Shouldn't a 2-minute help line call to HP/Apollo get the answer for you
> once and for all ???

  I also had a call into the hotline. When I received a call back, I knew 
  more about FTP than the Apollo rep. THIS SCARES ME!

  BTW, our HP account rep also 'accidentally' discovered that anonymous 
  ftp did not work. This raised a few eyebrows over at HP as well.

  This is not the first time that we have tripped over undocumented bugs.
  It's just very frustrating to have a machine which is supposedly JLRU,
  not support tools which are commonly available on other platforms and 
  also has documentation which is misleading.

  Enough flaming for now. It's time I slid back under the murky waters from
  whence I came ;-)

cheers
rob...
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