Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 09:30:02 -0500 (CDT) From: John Lind <john@starfire.mn.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ok, *now* it's End-Of-ALPHA Release Candidate time! Message-ID: <199506061430.JAA15019@starfire.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <17750.802441698@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 6, 95 05:27:59 am
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> 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
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