Re: What's the best Apple IIGS FTP site???

[jblaby@news.cyberstore.ca (John Blaby)]

On 4 Jan 1995 15:52:05 GMT, Nathan Mates (nathan@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:

  >    Ftp in general usually has an idle time kickoff 'feature': if you
  > don't type anything for say 5 minutes, it disconnects you. Whether the
  > ftp daemon at a site is smart enough to see that you can't hit
  > anything when downloading everything in a directory is a different
  > story.

I am under the impression that when you turn on the 'hash' marks, that
eliminates the possibility of the 'idle time kickoff'. In any event, I
always turn on hash marks and have never been kicked off :)

John
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