[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Howdy all,
>
> I was just trying to download the latest Mandrake (6.0) from one of
> the FTP mirrors (500+ Meggers, but I figure I might as well put my new
> DSL to work). Everything's great, except my FTP programs seem to be
> choking on some directories. There are a whole bunch of directories in
> the /Mandrake/instimage/lib directory (and possibly elsewhere), that
> my FTP programs (both WS_FTP and CuteFTP) are failing to open, giving
> "Not a Directory" errors. The directories have names like
> ld-linux.so.2, libc.so.6, and so forth. The only thing I can think is
> that the multiple dots in the file names are confusing my FTP
> programs, but I can't really see whay that would happen.
>
> I imagine I'me just doing (or overlooking) something stupid, but what?
> (Besides stubbornly refusing to get the CDs, that is).
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Chris
If you're going to d/l it, why not just install it as you download?
