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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Subject: Re: Sigh, FTP install bombed... 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 95 16:26:27 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1995 20:42:26 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> DEBUG: send <RETR bin/bin.ch>
> DEBUG: received <550 bin/bin.ch: No such file OR directory.>
> DEBUG: FTP: No such file bin/bin.ch, moving on.

My botch, now fixed.  I finally got sick of the entirely bindist/floppy
syncronization problem and updated the bindist in-place.  I know it
violates some of the rules, but this is ALPHA testing and I need to
emphasise ease of test over racial purity!:-)

> I tried again, with ftp.freebsd.org, but there were too many anonymous
> users.  The error message box showed up and disappeared way too quickly
> to see it, and then the "Connection timed out - please select another site"
> dialog showed up again.

Try freefall.

> When using this particular firewall method, in order to change sites I need
> to be able to change the username -- is there any chance that there could
> be some way to access the FTP username/password menu from this "respecify"
> point?

Hmmmm.  I see no immediate reason why not.  Wouldn't others find it
cumbersome, however?  Most folks would be moving between their primary
and alternate sites, all anon ftp anyway, right?  Perhaps I can ask it
_only_ if it was set before, though that sort of dicates that you set
it explicitly at least once.  I'm trying to figure out a way of preventing
it from popping up in people's faces when they don't want it.  Ideas?

						Jordan