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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Subject: Re: sysinstall REALLY needs a "reset FTP state" option, or something 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Dec 96 20:06:15 PST."
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 22:56:26 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <96Dec16.200619pst.177711@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> I wrote:
>(Or, even better, a keepalive so that a connection that
>hasn't transferred a byte in an hour times out and you get the ftp
>reselection menu...)

The problem is actually that the client sends "RETR foo" to the
server and never receives a response.  It'd be nice if sysinstall
(ftplib?) had a timeout for responses from the server, so that
things like this don't completely hose the install.  (If it
closed and reopened the connection, it could continue).

  Bill