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Date:      Sat, 2 May 1998 14:17:57 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        dg@root.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp.freebsd.org acting funny?
Message-ID:  <19980502141757.54394@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199805020010.RAA12061@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Fri, May 01, 1998 at 05:10:32PM -0700
References:  <199805020010.RAA12061@implode.root.com>

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On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 05:10:32PM -0700, David Greenman wrote:
>    I said:
> 
> >a much smaller set. -C would be the default in any case, and -F will be
> >ignored.
> 
>    Oops, actually -C is not the default of course and it will also be
> ignored.
>    I now know why the problem is occuring with ncftp and it has to do with
> it not conforming to the RFC regarding the NLST command. I don't think I'm
> going to work around that.

A large fraction of Unix people use ncftp2.  I'd hope you would
reconsider - or if not, at least add a warning and a suggestion for
another useable commandline FTP client to the login message.  I've not
yet seen another usable commandline FTP for Unix :-(

Eivind.

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