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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL3 reports
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:06:58 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> James Miller wrote:
> >
> > I looked into the ftp client a bit and it looks alot
> > more difficult than I had hoped. ncftp is included
> > in Slack 4.0,
>
> Doesn't it have the ordinary ftp client?

I search manifest.gz for ftp, but turned up only ncftp. That said, I was
doing a sort of quick and dirty search, so may have missed something.

> > but it's missing a dependency and won't run on BL3.
>
> Which dependency?

Can't remember offhand.

> I suggest you try the ftp in BL1. It has no dependencies.
> Just boot the BL1 ramdisk and copy /bin/ftp to floppy (or
> to your DOS partition).

Kind of tough to copy things to/from a floppy when you don't have a floppy
drive :). I can get it on one of my other machines on the networkthough
and copy it over that way. I'll report back with my results.

James




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