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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:34:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Wei Weng <wweng@stevens-tech.edu>
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Subject: Re: install port collection
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On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Wei Weng wrote:

> Hi.
> I have the same problem. But the things worse here is I am behind a stupid
> firewall, so there is no way that i can use ftp to grab the package from
> the master site directly. Is there any other way to do it?
> 

If you can do passive FTP then try setting the environment variable
FTP_PASSIVE_MODE.  This will cause fetch to use passive mode instead,
which can normally get past firewalls.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major