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Subject: Re: Junkbase updates and a new suggested PGN opening book source

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 08:17:35 07/11/03

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On July 11, 2003 at 10:10:42, Frank Phillips wrote:

>On July 11, 2003 at 05:28:01, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Put a lot of effort into cleaning up this block of PGN for use in creation of
>>opening books:
>>ftp://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new-approach/book.pgn.bz2
>>
>>No guarantees about quality, though.  No wonder they pay the big bucks for the
>>commercial systems.
>>
>>Lots of new junkbase games:
>>ftp://cap.connx.com/a-openings/
>>ftp://cap.connx.com/b-openings/
>>ftp://cap.connx.com/c-openings/
>>ftp://cap.connx.com/d-openings/
>>ftp://cap.connx.com/e-openings/
>
>Can anyone tell me how to connect to this wonderful site.
>
>Frank
>
>Output form gFTP (Mandrake 9.1).
>
>TYPE I
>
>200 Type set to I.
>PWD
>
>257 "/" is current directory.
>PASV
>
>227 Entering Passive Mode (65,212,159,158,4,145)
>Cannot create a data connection: No route to host
>Disconnecting from site cap.connx.com
>Looking up cap.connx.com
>Trying dannfast.corporate.connx.com:21
>Connected to cap.connx.com:21
>220-CAP
>220 Please enter your name:
>USER anonymous
>
>331 User name okay, Need password.
>PASS xxxx
>230 User logged in.
>TYPE I
>
>200 Type set to I.
>PWD
>
>257 "/" is current directory.
>PASV
>
>227 Entering Passive Mode (65,212,159,158,4,146)
>Cannot create a data connection: No route to host
>Disconnecting from site cap.connx.com

Hi Frank,

You need to select either passive or active mode before connecting (can't
remember which). Using a command-line ftp tool, I type "passive" (or "active", I
can't recall) before trying to download anything.

AW



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