Unreliable FTP

[chris at umcp-cs.UUCP]

In article <2258 at uwmacc.UUCP> ejnorman at uwmacc.UUCP (Eric Norman) writes:
>Anyone know how come it is that FTP sometimes doesn't do anything
>when I do a "get file"? ...  It smells like a timing problem to me.

Right you are; though your detailed explanation is not in fact
correct.  FTP just plain gets confused when it sees multiple
responses `simultaneously'.

Fixed in 4.3!
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