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Date: 9 Feb 88 16:40:58 GMT
From: Joel Garrett <apple!sun!LOUIE.UDEL.EDU!garrett at Sun.COM>
Organization: University of Delaware
Subject: Re: Silicon Graphics ftp Bug
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In article <571366210.10744 at bucasb.bu.edu> mike at bucasb.UUCP (Michael Cohen) writes:
>In communicating with a BSD 4.3 machine SGI ftp doesn't seem
>to be able to do mputs or mgets.  This is true if I either attmpt
>to mget from a remote machine or mput locally.  I get different error
>messages in each case.  ftp using put or get works fine.  Has anybody
>seen bugs like this before.

Yeah, we've been having that same problem ever since we upgraded to the latest
release of the kernel.  Does anyone know if SGI knows about the problem
already and maybe has a fix for it?

					Joel Garrett
					Research Associate
					Center for Composite Materials
					University of Delaware
					Newark, DE  19716

					arpa: garrett at udel.edu