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Cc: Lawrence Horvath <lordsporkton@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ftp server
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On Sunday 23 April 2006 21:19, Lawrence Horvath wrote:
> I cant even get to ftp://ftp.csua.berleley.edu/pub
> digging ftp.csua.berleley.edu results in null, so does digging
> csua.berleley.edu
> 
> you may want to try a different mirror
> 
> On 4/23/06, Bret Esquivel <bret@immense.net> wrote:
> > Try ftp://ftp.csua.berleley.edu/pub/.1/ports/distfiles/staroffice52/
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
> > solsyst@netscape.net
> > Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 9:55 PM
> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
> > Subject: ftp server
> >
> > Dear FreeBSD:
> >
> > I can get to your web page
> > www.freebsd.org/cgi//pds.cgi?ports/editors/staroffice52. I can find the
> > staroffice52 info, one of which is sources. when I click on sources I
> > arrive at a page which gives me a lot of ftp sites for downloading so-5
> > 2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin, or 109939-03.tar.Z.
> >
> > However, when I enter
> > "ftp.csua.berleley.edu/pub/.1/ports/distfiles/staroffice52/" (no
> > quotes) into my trustry little ftp software package, I cannot connect.
> >


I don't know anything about this port or the ftp address you are trying to 
access, but is there a chance that in the ftp address "berleley" should be 
replaced with "berkeley"?