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To: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net>
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Subject: Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 02 Jun 1999 19:47:36 +0200
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Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net> writes:
> Certain shareware lose95 FTP servers don't know how to do passive mode.

No need to go looking through Windows software; the unjustly popular
ncftp is equally braindead. The ncftp man page makes for very
interesting (and depressing) reading; it is quite obvious that the
author has never read RFC959.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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