Re: LANceGS Ethernet Card: First Look

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 00:31:09 -0500, Matt Jensen <no@spam.com> wrote:

>What's so tough about implementing FTP using Marinetti?  (I'm not asking
>for your "answer" here--I'd just like to know what the "question" was.)
>
>The only thing I can see as being a problem would be the asynchronous
>PORT (server-connects-to-client) stuff.  That's easily addressed using
>PASV commands.

There is nothing tough about implementing an FTP client on the IIgs.
After all, Geoff Weiss has already produced two such clients and I
believe Kim Howe has added FTP support to his preview 2 of Arachnid.

The problem I have is in the way I would like my FTP client to work.
The problem has to do with the way FTP transfers work which puts a
rather large kink in the way I wanted to handle it.  I've come up with
one way to fix part of the problem but not all FTP servers will
support it.

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