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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 12:45:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Wei Weng <wweng@stevens-tech.edu>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: install port collection
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Thanks for your replying. But what is passive FTP mode? How can I know if
I am using it or not?

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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Doug White wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Wei Weng wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> > I have the same problem. But the things worse here is I am behind a stupid
> > firewall, so there is no way that i can use ftp to grab the package from
> > the master site directly. Is there any other way to do it?
> > 
> 
> If you can do passive FTP then try setting the environment variable
> FTP_PASSIVE_MODE.  This will cause fetch to use passive mode instead,
> which can normally get past firewalls.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
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