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"Reid M. Pinchback": Re: sun4 8.2.8: /usr/athena/bin/ftp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Oct 13 12:27:12 1998
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:26:57 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
I'm forwarding Reid's reply here since it's useful for bugs to know
that the problem has been resolved. I'm not going to bother cc'ing my
answer.
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:09:44 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
From: "Reid M. Pinchback" <reidmp@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: sun4 8.2.8: /usr/athena/bin/ftp
At 10:49 AM 10/13/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Does the problem go away if you issue the command "passive" before
>starting the transfer?
Yes, "passive" fixed the problem. What does that do? It isn't
documented in the man page, and 'help passive' doesn't say
very much.
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