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Date:      Mon, 05 Jun 1995 17:28:19 -0700
From:      Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Cc:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FTP install finally gets through my firewall! 
Message-ID:  <25821.802398499@westhill.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 1995 15:50:15 PDT." <95Jun5.155016pdt.49859@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> 

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In message <95Jun5.155016pdt.49859@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>, Bill Fenner writes
:
>How many dots are expected to appear per file?  bin.a[abcde] each arrived
>after only printing 3-4 dots, but bin.af printed 7.5 lines of dots before
>it was done.  Is this probably just weird network blocking, or should I be
>worried?

one dot is printed out per file, so if you extract the dict you only
get a couple of dots, but if you extract man you'll get thousands of
the little blighters.

Don't worry - blame cpio :-)

Gary




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