From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 6 6:59:48 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 06:59:46 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scuff.cc.utexas.edu (scuff.cc.utexas.edu [128.83.135.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14B7837B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 06:59:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (spindler@localhost) by scuff.cc.utexas.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA17566 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 08:59:44 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: scuff.cc.utexas.edu: spindler owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 08:59:44 -0600 (CST) From: David Spindler X-Sender: spindler@scuff.cc.utexas.edu To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Bad file on ftp servers Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There is a file that contains a '%' character on all the ftp servers, however some of the ftp servers such as ftp5.freebsd.org will disconnect a user if he requests a file with a '%' in the name. You can get around it by using wildcard characters, but it does cause problems for mirroring programs. /pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/pkg_tarup?rev=1.2&content-type=text%2fplain David Spindler TIS-Network Operations 512-475-9299 512-415-1434 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message