[thelist] Re: Macs and MS FTP...

[Frank]

>  I have a work-around but it's a pain. For directory
>  listings I just type CMD-Period and continue working.
>  Easy enough. But file transfers are more problematic. I
>  can download a file but since the transfer never appears
>  to complete, when I type CMD-Period the file is deleted
>  from the download folder. The work-around is that I
>  leave the ftp prgram spinning along, locate the file in
>  the finder, duplicate it, return to ftp and do the
>  CMD-period. The file being downloaded is deleted but my
>  copy is still there intact.


YES! YES! YES! DEAR GOD! I'M NOT ALONE!

It sure would be nice if we could solve this. This has been one of my 
worst problems of late. I've often had to try several times to 
download a simple 2 text file. Downloading a directory is out of the 
question.

Using Interarchy, I did a TCP trace ('traffic' in Interarchy) and 
there was one and only one noticeable difference. The FTP server 
frequently fails to say "Ok, I'm all done now".

I've included the files that I've sent to my ISP with more detail. 
Find it here:

http://www.framarstudios.com/misc/MSFTP_Sucks.zip

The 8k file includes a contrastive analysis of the same file being 
downloaded successfully, and one that failed. I repeated this about 
10 times, each time with exactly the same result.

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