Greetings! Mike, my apologies for being so swamped this week. I plan on trying to contact the gnu people about this on Thursday when I return from out of the country.
Take care, "Mike Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Camm. > > | 1) If you are behind a certain type of firewall, passive ftp is > | required. What ends up happening without it is that the file is > | opened on the remote side, given a 0 file size, but the reverse > | data channel is never opened and the upload is stopped here. > > As far as I can tell the files went up yesterday after the umpteenth attempt > but seem not to have made it onto out ftp site. Nor have a I received an > email indicating either an error or success as I have done in the past. > > | 2) If some mishap like the above happens, and there is a file or > | fragment with the same name on the system, it will not be > | overwritten. Typically it is auto-deleted with an email > | notification within 24 hrs enabling a retry after this time > | interval. In any case, directory listings won't work even if the > | file is there. Welcome to the world of ftp crippleware forced on > | us by the malicious and irresponsible :-(. You might try with a > | different name if you expect the above. > | > | If none of this works, and if you still can't get a reply from > | gnu.org, please let me know and I will write them too. > > I'll try one more time later today. > > Cheers > > Mike Thomas. > > > > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
