#: 20678 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    06-Jan-95  03:31:17
Sb: PC  OS/9 via TCP/IP?
Fm: Ingo Pakleppa (ECS) 100041,102
To: all

Hello,

I'm developed a PC application that should talk to an OS/9 system (68k) via the
FTP protocol.

Most of the time, this works just fine - but sometimes, my TCP/IP package on
the PC end reports odd errors that I have not been able to track down.

I suspect some subtle incompatibility between the PC's flavor of FTP and the
OS/9 flavor. Distinct (the supplier of the PC TCP/IP software) was unable to
help me. Therefore, I now decided to bite the bullet and rewrite my software,
using a different package.

My questions are these:

- I am using Distinct TCP/IP 3.20. Does anybody possibly have experience with
the combination OS/9 - Distinct and know what might be the problem?

- has anybody successfully connected a PC with an OS/9 system? With which
TCP/IP software?


Some configuration information:

In the installation in question, two OS/9 systems are connected with a
(reliable) Ethernet connection. There are quite a few PCs connected to the same
Ethernet; they access a Novell server. One single PC actually talks to both the
Novell server and the OS/9 systems; both protocols are installed on top of the
same network adapter card.

I have also tried a connection between the two OS/9 systems and a PC only,
disconnected from the Novell network - same result. Therefore, I'm sure that
there is not just a conflict between the different network protocols.

The error I get apparently usually occurs during an ftp_get or ftp_put
function, and it returns error code 451 (which seems to indicate a local abort
- something I definitely did not trigger).

Thanks in advance for any hints, either regarding a different TCP/IP library or
finding the cause of the problem!

Ingo

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