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- From: henigan@quando.quantum.de (Kevin Henigan)
- Subject: Re: ftp ...not a plain file HELP
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.155807.16687@quando.quantum.de>
- Keywords: ftp resource forks
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- References: <1992Nov4.061850.21227@cs.UAlberta.CA>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:58:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov4.061850.21227@cs.UAlberta.CA> glyn@cs.UAlberta.CA (Reade Glyn Devin) writes:
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- > I was trying to download some files (say, for example,
- >the system 6 software from ftp.apple.com) and when I tried to
- >get the file, I received the error "not a plain file".
-
- it's "not a plain file" it's a directory :-)
-
- an ls look's like this :-
-
- drwxr-xr-x 2 fred 2048 Oct 30 10:28 dir
- -rw-r--r-- 1 fred 8282 Jul 17 13:20 README
- ^
- The first character tells you the type -
- d - directory
- - - plain file
-
- so do a cd directory
- then ls
- and get file
-
-
- >--Devin glyn@manning.cs.ualberta.ca
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