Hello Maurice.

15 Sep 03 04:01, you wrote to me:

 MK> Hello Mike.

 MK> 15 Sep 03 00:34, you wrote to me:

 MM>>  Hmm, strange, I've never had that problem before .. I just reset
 MM>> the BBS itself, perhaps something was hung up?

 MK> Possibly.  I just tried it again and managed to successfully login.  I
 MK> see a file called ensemble.qwk but when I do a "get" it just sits
 MK> there and does nothing saying, [Waiting for response...].  I tried it
 MK> with both lftp and ncftp with the same result.  A "ls" yeilds:

 MK> -r--r--r--   1 ensemble        ensemble     10240 Sep 15 06:06
 MK> ensemble.qwk

 MK> Notice the file permissions.

  It will just sit there for awhile, why you 'get ensemble.qwk' it starts
packing all the mail for you, zips it up, and then when that's all done, it
sends it.  unfortunately it seems to do it slower than when you log into the
BBS ... I'm going to try turning the 'prepack' flag on for you... we'll see
where that leads :)

The file permissions are like that, because the file doesn't actually
exist. It's just a virtual link. 
 MK> I also notice a directory called main with a subdirectory called
 MK> "UPLOAD".  Is that where the reply file goes?  I never
checked to see
 MK> whether or not I could actually upload anything.

 Nope, the .rep file will go in the same directory you download the .qwk
file from. once the server receives it, it will immediately be unpacked,
and your messages posted. 

 MM>>  Nope, you shouldn't need to compile lrzsz, as FTP should work
 MM>> fine .. give it another shot, if it fails, please paste the error
 MM>> message you get .. I don't have the port blocked at all (port 21)
 MM>> and I just tried it myself .. it worked :P

 MK> It works ... sort of.  I got further then I did yesterday.  :-)

 And, if you're willing to give it one more shot, you should be able to get
all the way today :) .. you just need to be patient with the 'get
ensemble.qwk' command, as it has to run through all the actions of
scanning, and packing, and
compressing before it will begin to send.. that's the reason it appears to
'hang'.


Mike

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