From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 27 23:20:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA11082 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 23:20:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA11077 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 23:20:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id QAA24931; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 16:20:00 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id PAA04871; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 15:26:06 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970828152606.13148@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 15:26:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: decebal Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP out of order from FreeBSD ?? References: <340425B7.41C67EA6@imaginet.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <340425B7.41C67EA6@imaginet.fr>; from decebal on Wed, Aug 27, 1997 at 01:03:51PM +0000 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Aug 27, 1997 at 01:03:51PM +0000, decebal wrote: > We have been trying for several days to download packages from any of > the packages directories without success. The only result we get is a > bizarre text (many uncomprehensible symbols) on our netscape window. > Otherwise, we succeded in importing files from other non BSD sites. So > the problem comes very likely from your sites. > Thank you for confirming us. In case of doubt, suspect Netscape, especially if it's producing garbled messages.. Try running ftp directly and see what it says. Greg