Re: FTP only with Windows? Why not Linux?

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:55:03 +0800, 
Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> wrote in message 
<[🔎] 20030914135503.5a68290f.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>:

> On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:43:12 -0400
> Peter Christensen <christenpet@snip.net> wrote:
> 
> > Does that Winsock reference mean that only software running under
> > Windows can get through???  I've used Kbear and Konqueror
> > successfully to ftp to other sites...
> 
> I encountered something like this once. Somebody suggested that I use
> "ncftp" (there's a Debian package) and it worked. I can't tell you
> just why, but ncftp seems pretty good.

..it auto-detects passive or not?

..I _always_ use --passive-ftp on ftp sites with wget.


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