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Subject: Re: Why on earth ...

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 10:26:45 02/21/03

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On February 21, 2003 at 10:48:14, Frank Phillips wrote:

>On February 21, 2003 at 08:34:19, Andrew Williams wrote:
>
>>On February 21, 2003 at 05:33:12, Frank Phillips wrote:
>>
>>>On February 20, 2003 at 15:39:32, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 20, 2003 at 14:02:33, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>... is almost everbody playing [rather meaningless?] blitz games 5m/game or even
>>>>>less?? With hardware 3-5 times faster than today, we shall soon see matches at
>>>>>1m/game. And then it will be high time for me to find a new hobby, grrrr ....
>>>>
>>>>Here are nearly 4000 games at slow time control:
>>>>ftp://cap.connx.com/The%20Gauntlet/contest/
>>>>
>>>>I share your dislike of blitz.  In the same way, some people will prefer a hot
>>>>dog and soda to steak and champaign.
>>>>*shrug*
>>>
>>>It would be so nice to be able to access this site.  I have tried ftp clients
>>>(active and passive), various browser, including IE (shudder), but all to no
>>>avail.
>>>
>>>Any hints?
>>>
>>>Frank
>>
>>I've always been able to get it with just a command-line ftp in Linux. Once it's
>>open you have to switch to passive (or is it active?) mode. Then it's just like
>>any other ftp site for me...
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>Andrew
>
>
>Andrew
>
>Thanks, but failed again.  There is obviously more going on here than I
>understand.
>
>Frank
>
>
>Name (cap.connx.com:fp): 331 User name okay, Need password.
>Password:
>230 User logged in.
>Remote system type is UNIX.
>Using binary mode to transfer files.
>ftp> mode active
>We only support stream mode, sorry.
>ftp> mode passive
>We only support stream mode, sorry.
>ftp> ls
>227 Entering Passive Mode (209,20,248,158,15,15)
>
>close
>ftp: connect: Connection timed out
>ftp> 221 Goodbye.  Control connection closed.
>ftp>

I think your problem is the "mode..." command. I get the same error
when I type that. The correct command is "passive".

Here is my whole session:

========= FTP SESSION ==============
andyw/chess>
andyw/chess> ftp cap.connx.com
Connected to 209.20.248.158.
220-CAP
220 Please enter your name:
Name (cap.connx.com:andyw): anonymous
331 User name okay, Need password.
Password: <my email address>
230 User logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> passive
Passive mode: off; fallback to active mode: off.
ftp> dir
500 'EPRT': command not understood.
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (4819 bytes).
drwxrw-rw- 1 root  root        0 Feb  6  5:25 a-openings
drwxrw-rw- 1 root  root        0 Sep 13  2002 Alibaba
drwxrw-rw- 1 root  root        0 Sep 13  2002 amy
drwxrw-rw- 1 root  root        0 Jan 28 12:25 APR-CL
drwxrw-rw- 1 root  root        0 Sep 13  2002 Arasan5.0
drwxrw-rw- 1 root  root        0 Feb  6  3:22 b-openings
[ SNIPPED LONG DIRECTORY LISTING ]
226 Transfer successful.
ftp> get smileys.txt
local: smileys.txt remote: smileys.txt
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening binary mode data connection for /smileys.txt (27963 bytes).
100% |*******[snip]**************************************************| 27963
 37.04 KB/s    00:00 ETA
226 Transfer complete. 27963 bytes in 1 sec. (27.96 Kb/s).
27963 bytes received in 00:01 (25.89 KB/s)
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.  Control connection closed.
andyw/chess>
========== END OF FTP SESSION ===============

Cheers

Andrew





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