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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 14:24:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Wei Weng <wweng@stevens-tech.edu>
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Subject: Re: install port collection
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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Wei Weng wrote:

> Thanks for your replying. But what is passive FTP mode? How can I know if
> I am using it or not?

I don't know how pssive FTP works, but it connects in a different fashion
that doesn't upset firewalls as much.  You're using it if you have the
environment variable FTP_PASSIVE_MODE set or if you have it set in
Netscape, or if you can't use ftp without special flags.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major