From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 6 07:31:25 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA21739 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 07:31:25 -0700 Received: from kksys.skypoint.net (kksys.skypoint.net [199.86.32.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA21733 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 07:31:21 -0700 Received: from starfire.mn.org by kksys.skypoint.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0sIzd1-0002RwC; Tue, 6 Jun 95 09:29 CDT Received: (from john@localhost) by starfire.mn.org (8.6.8/1.2.1) id JAA15019 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 09:30:03 -0500 From: John Lind Message-Id: <199506061430.JAA15019@starfire.mn.org> Subject: Re: Ok, *now* it's End-Of-ALPHA Release Candidate time! To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 09:30:02 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <17750.802441698@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 6, 95 05:27:59 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1682 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I just need to know right now how well it works on *your* machine! :-) OK -- I had the latest of a couple of days ago running on a 25Mhz 386 w/4M of memory, an Addtron ne2000 clone, and a WD1007(V) ESDI controller, but I thought you'd want to see what this stuff does, so I've dumped it all and am reloading now... Anyway, one thing caught my eye which may or may not be a problem, because I don't really understand the intricacies of the firewalled FTP situation, but when I brought up the Options menu from the menu with "Commit" on it, I saw that "passive" mode for firewalled FTP was selected, so I changed it to "active" mode for standard ftp. As I guess how these might be, I am assuming that they are mutually exclusive, so I find the wording a little confusing. If my understanding is correct, a couple of sets of parentheses would clarify it a bit. I don't have the menu up in front of me right now, so any actual wording changes are accidental, I am just showing how I think parens would clarify things if they are exclusive (or make things worse if they are not! :-) [ ] FTP "passive" mode (for firewalled access) [ ] FTP "active" mode (for standard access) To summarize 1) Should passive mode be the default? 2) Adding parens to enhance understandability. Of course, the parens thing is pretty minor, so if you aren't going to change the default, it surely wouldbn't be worth holding things up just for the parens. This looks great, but with FreeBSD getting this easy and fun to install, no-one is going to want to pay me to do it anymore! :-) John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN 55417