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From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: misc/42172: ftp and fetch client needs an active command line option now 
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The following reply was made to PR misc/42172; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/42172: ftp and fetch client needs an active command line option now 
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:17:51 +0100

 In message <200208291949.g7TJn3J2026751@www.freebsd.org>, Ted Mittelstaedt writ
 es:
 >      Now, I know that most people are going to be saying "so what,
 >all FTP servers support passive mode" but au-contraire, that is not
 >true.  I ran across one that ONLY supports ACTIVE mode FTP - it is
 >a network storage device called a "Snap!" server, manufactured by
 >Quantum.  The lack of an active switch makes it rather difficult to 
 >write scripts that deal with this device.
 
 It seems that setting the environment variable FTP_PASSIVE_MODE to
 "NO" should do what you want. Does that work?
 
 Ian

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