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- From: eengelke@steam.uwaterloo.ca (Erick Engelke)
- Subject: Re: Problems with NCSA ftpbin !
- Message-ID: <BtwMD7.264@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Keywords: NCSA,ftp
- Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <15268@suns5.crosfield.co.uk> <1611@ocpt.ccur.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:46:18 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- pechter@ocpt.ccur.com (Bill Pechter) writes:
- > rjc@crosfield.co.uk (roger clark) writes:
- >> I'm having some problems with NCSA ftp. I can ftp to and from sun
- >>sparkstations without any problems, but when I try to ftp to a 68020 based
- >>unix system which we developed inhouse, the ftp locks up and occasionally
- >>fills the screen with strange characters (almost if has gone into another
- >>graphics mode). Also it only happens on files above about 50K or so.
- >
- >
- >Got the same kind of problems - I went to the Waterloo TCP/IP
- >(or was it the PC/IP stuff) and had no problem. NCSA Telnet also
- >locks up occasionally.
- >
-
- Try reducing the NCSA window size to 512 bytes and see if that prevents
- the crashes. I've noticed problems with NCSA ftp grinding to a halt,
- and that's why I wrote the WATTCP FTP with its tendancy to speed up
- with larger file transfers, but I haven't seen NCSA crash.
-
- Erick
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- Erick Engelke Engineering Computing
- University of Waterloo
- Waterloo TCP Architect erick@development.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
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