Re: Ground ftp server

[jmholmes@swbell.net (John Holmes)]

There is probably some type of connection problem between myself and ground. 

As I said earlier I know that it is not a software issue since I have tried 
windows FTP clients, Internet Explorer, as well as a unix shell account based 
FTP client.  

And please don't ask me to polute my machine with NutScrape Communicator as I 
already made that mistake on two of my Windows 98 machines which are now in 
queue for a complete backup of the data files and then formatting and 
re-installing Win98 and never installing a Nutscrape product on my machines 
again.  Those two (out of 5) machines have never functioned correctly after I 
installed it.  Not to mention making a web page viewable by Nutscrape involves 
adding additional lines of code, and in some cases, so many extra lines that 
it would be easier to just put the code in to test for a Nutscrape browser and 
then redirect them to the MS website)...

In article <20000125024936.02643.00000187@ng-bh1.aol.com>, supertimer@aol.com 
(Supertimer) wrote:
>jmholmes@swbell.net (John Holmes) wrote:
>
>>I decided to try the caltech site instead of the ground site last night and it
>
>>worked like a charm.  I had also tried ws-ftp and cute-ftp with ground but 
>>just could not get it to work.  At least I was able to start getting some toys
>
>>to play with off of caltech so it finally turned out ok! :)
>
>Caltech is a good alternative.  The only problem is that they stopped
>accepting uploads a couple of years ago, so the stuff is older than
>what is available on ground.
>
>Have you tried using your browser to download from ground?  It usually
>works using an ftp URL and right clicking on a link, then saving it.
>Or from your shell account, use the Lynx browser and press "d" when
>the file you want to download is indicated.