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what is /etc/ftp ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (juliasu@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 18 22:21:08 1992

From: juliasu@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 92 22:20:52 EST


I'm on the dialup machine e40-008-10.mit.edu and happen to have /etc
before /bin in my PATH. When I tried running ftp, then, it would run
/etc/ftp, which just returns the prompt back to me again. /bin/ftp
and /usr/ucb/ftp, however, work properly.

What is /etc/ftp?  Thanks.

juliasu@athena.mit.edu

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