Re: [Gcl-devel] RE: [support #103873] When will the Windows ?.exe setup file be available for 2.66?

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Two thoughts based on my own past hiccups with this system:

1) If you are behind a certain type of firewall, passive ftp is
   required.  What ends up happening without it is that the file is
   opened on the remote side, given a 0 file size, but the reverse
   data channel is never opened and the upload is stopped here.

2) If some mishap like the above happens, and there is a file or
   fragment with the same name on the system, it will not be
   overwritten.  Typically it is auto-deleted with an email
   notification within 24 hrs enabling a retry after this time
   interval.  In any case, directory listings won't work even if the
   file is there.  Welcome to the world of ftp crippleware forced on
   us by the malicious and irresponsible :-(.  You might try with a
   different name if you expect the above.

If none of this works, and if you still can't get a reply from
gnu.org, please let me know and I will write them too.

Take care,

"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Camm.
> 
> | Greetings!  Mike, if you want to write to me privately with the
> | details I might be able to help.  I cannot remember if your last
> | upload required the relatively new procedures for GPG signing of three
> | files, etc.
> 
> Thanks.  I used the 3 file GPG system but the problem is the actual creation
> of the files as shown in the email I sent to the GNU people below.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas
> 
> 
> Hi there.
> 
> I'm trying to put a new verion of GCL into that directory and keep getting
> complaints from FTP as shown below.  Should I just wait or is there trouble
> afoot?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\miketh>cd c:\lang\junk
> 
> C:\lang\junk>dir
>  Volume in drive C has no label.
>  Volume Serial Number is 44EE-D89E
> 
>  Directory of C:\lang\junk
> 
> 11/02/2005  09:42 AM    <DIR>          .
> 11/02/2005  09:42 AM    <DIR>          ..
> 11/02/2005  09:42 AM               254
> gcl_2.6.6.mingw32_ansi_japi_20050210.directive.asc
> 11/02/2005  09:42 AM        12,103,944
> gcl_2.6.6.mingw32_ansi_japi_20050210.exe
> 11/02/2005  09:42 AM                65
> gcl_2.6.6.mingw32_ansi_japi_20050210.exe.sig
> 11/02/2005  09:42 AM               254
> gcl_2.6.6.mingw32_cltl1_japi_20050210.directive.asc
> 11/02/2005  09:42 AM         8,710,049
> gcl_2.6.6.mingw32_cltl1_japi_20050210.exe
> 11/02/2005  09:42 AM                65
> gcl_2.6.6.mingw32_cltl1_japi_20050210.exe.sig
>                6 File(s)     20,814,631 bytes
>                2 Dir(s)   1,609,068,544 bytes free
> 
> C:\lang\junk>ftp ftp-upload.gnu.org
> Connected to ftp-upload.gnu.org.
> 220 GNU Upload FTP server ready.
> User (ftp-upload.gnu.org:(none)): ftp
> 230 Login successful.
> ftp> cd incoming/ftp
> 250 Directory successfully changed.
> ftp> mput *.asc
> mput gcl_2.6.6.mingw32_ansi_japi_20050210.directive.asc? y
> 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
> 553 Could not create file.
> mput gcl_2.6.6.mingw32_cltl1_japi_20050210.directive.asc? y
> 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
> 553 Could not create file.
> ftp> dir gcl_2.6.6.mingw32_ansi_japi_20050210.directive.asc
> 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
> 150 Here comes the directory listing.
> 226 Transfer done (but failed to open directory).
> ftp> pwd
> 257 "/incoming/ftp"
> ftp> quit
> 221 Goodbye.
> 
> C:\lang\junk>ftp ftp-upload.gnu.org
> Connected to ftp-upload.gnu.org.
> 220 GNU Upload FTP server ready.
> User (ftp-upload.gnu.org:(none)): mjthomas
> 530 This FTP server is anonymous only.
> Login failed.
> ftp> quit
> 221 Goodbye.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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