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- From: tnnrtg@tnb.phys.tue.nl (Tonnie Geraets)
- Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin
- Subject: Re: NCFTP
- Message-ID: <tnnrtg.727968188@tnb.phys.tue.nl>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 13:23:08 GMT
- References: <1993Jan17.180707.7120@alf.uib.no> <GNAT.93Jan18130643@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz><1993Jan18.084109.7505@alf.uib.no><1993Jan20.112645.4119@yarra-glen.aaii.oz.au> <GNAT.93Jan21104634@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
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- gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:
- [about NcFTP]
- >Yeah, but it has problems -- it doesn't work well with the
- >wuarchive-style ftpd, which will do automagic tar/Z-ing of dirs/files
- >on the fly. ncftp(1) seems to check if the thing to be gotten exists
- >before getting it (this is because if the :/foo/bar is a directory, it
- >will cd to that directory; if it's a file, it will get it).
-
- Have you reported this problem to the author? If not, please do so. I'm
- under the impression that the author, Michael Gleason
- (mgleason@cse.unl.edu), is very willing to fix bugs and to add usefull
- features.
-
- [...]
-
- >Nat :-)
-
- -Tonnie.
-
- --
- Tonnie Geraets E-mail: tonnie@ctrl.phys.tue.nl
- Department of Physics Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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