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Date:      Tue, 30 Apr 1996 22:48:23 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Running FTP as a slave process ...
Message-ID:  <199604301318.WAA21129@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199604300902.SAA20627@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 30, 96 06:32:37 pm

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Michael Smith stands accused of saying:
> 
> I want to see whether what I've transferred has made it.  So I issue an
> 'nlist <blah>' command.  Oddly enough, it gets written by the slave, 
> but doesn't immediately show up at my end; in fact it's not until I
> ask the slave to quit that I hear it.
> 
> If I had more time, I'd investigate further, but has anyone else done
> this before, and what results did they get?

*sigh*  Finally got totally stonewalled by it - turns out that it uses
stdio and doesn't &*^%%$ flush it, despite having (some) support in it
for running as an inferior.  Nice having the source; easy to hack it
to suit.

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