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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>3)	Have the people having problems use ncftp to try and
>	FTP from the modified daemon.  The reason for ncftp
>	is the ability to specify a port using the "-p"
>	command line argument (regular FTP can't do this, for
>	some dumb reason).

   The regular BSD ftp command has always supported using an alternate port.
You do this with:  ftp host.com <port_num>

-DG

David Greenman
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President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
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