Greg Mayman (3:800/449) wrote to Steven Horn at 08:06 on 06 May 2003:

 GM> My point exactly. Where did the fault lie, with him or with the
 GM> rest of the country? Who was it had to change?

One can argue that it would depend on what one could live with.  But if you
need to access a particular server AND if that server is using MSCHAP, it
becomes a tough choice. 

 GM> And where does the fault lie with Arachne's inability to access
 GM> some FTP servers? (a) with Arachne? or (b) with the rest of the
 GM> world? Who should have to change?

Arachne is a relatively recent program -- my copy of 1.70 -- is dated 2001
but it may not have been possible to test it with all the systems out
there.  And who's to say that the server was configured properly.  So why
worry?  I expect less from DOS freeware than I do from a program I paid
for.

 GM> Nope. Arachne won't work at all with those servers, with or
 GM> without tweaking. I have had to go to an external client.

But you got connected with Arachne and were then able to call the external
program.  Give the spider credit for something. :-)

 GM> Well, at least I can upload now, although it took one hell of a lot
 GM> of trials and dead ends to do it.

You're running software where this is an occupational hazard.  You really
can't expect everything to work 'out of the box'.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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