Re: ftp problem

[Gary Byers <gb@cambridge.apple.com>]

> 
> Today, I tried FTP service at cambridge.apple.com to access MACL
> user contributed software, only to see a strange thing. Following
> is a session log:
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Connected to cambridge.apple.com.
> 220 brazil.cambridge.apple.com FTP server (Version 4.1 Tue Apr 10 05:15:32 PDT 1990) ready.
> Name (cambridge.apple.com:honda): ftp
> 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
> Password:
> 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
> ftp> ls
> 200 PORT command successful.
> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (0 bytes).
> 226 Transfer complete.
> ftp> quit
> 221 Goodbye.
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> As you see in the log, command ls didn't work well. I could connect
> to cambridge.apple.com but I couldn't see what are there. Is there
> anything wrong at cambridge.apple.com, or this is just my problem ?
> 
> Yasuaki Honda
> Sony Computer Science Lab. Inc.
> honda@csl.sony.co.jp
> 
> 

We recently reconfigured the network here; the host "cambridge.apple.com" is
now a Mac IIx running A/UX 2.0.

For reasons that are not well understood (by me, at least) "ls" and "dir" 
commands from anonymous FTP connections behave as indicated in your message.
File transfers seem to work, so you can get stuff if you happen to know
what it's called & where it is.

We're working on the problem; unfortunately, the network reconfiguration has
had other disruptive effects here and those other problems have taken priority.
We'll send a message on info-macl as soon as we have this fixed.

The current contents of ~ftp/pub/MACL/CONTRIB are:

-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      bin         4000 Aug  1 07:33 background-sleep.lisp
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      bin         5548 Aug  1 07:33 compare-windows.lisp
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      bin        32229 Aug  1 07:33 custom.sit.hqx
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      bin         1276 Aug  1 07:33 escape-meta-prefix.lisp
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      bin        24304 Aug  1 07:33 lalr1-parser.sit.Hqx
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      bin        34146 Aug  1 07:33 macl-spreadsheet.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      bin         7588 Aug  1 07:33 mark-regions.lisp
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      bin         2643 Aug  1 07:33 mark-regions.readme
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      bin         4084 Aug  1 07:33 new-mouse-yank.lisp
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      bin         8351 Aug  1 07:33 pattern-matcher.sit.Hqx
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      bin        15310 Aug  1 07:33 serial-io.sit.hqx
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      bin         1902 Aug  4 13:00 styled-text-edit-info.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      bin        20675 Aug  4 13:00 styled-text-edit.sit.hqx
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      bin         3700 Aug  1 07:33 template.lisp
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      bin          874 Aug  4 13:01 text-edit-info.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      bin         6989 Aug  4 13:01 text-edit.sit.hqx

Sorry for the inconvenience; if anyone has experience with anonymous FTP
under A/UX 2.0, I'd be interested in hearing their suggestions.

Gary Byers
gb@cambridge.apple.com