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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

Creating the file /etc/service and adding there lines to the effect
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ftp     21/tcp
fsp     21/tcp  fspd
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did, indeed, cause the ftp client from BL1 to work (I copied information
for /etc/services from my Debian system: can't say I really learned much,
but I did get to employ my tech cannibalism skills a bit).  I can now ftp
to other machines on my network.  But, sadly, this doesn't accomplish the
goal I hoped to accomplish.  You see, I was hoping to get mc's ftp
capabilities working, since it gives a nice listing of files and dirs on
local and remote machine from/to which copying can be done.  I now think
the problem with mc's ftp capabilities lies with the mount command.  My
speculation is that I can't get ftp to work from mc is because it uses the
full mount, which has the filesystem type ftpfs (mount -t ftpfs
user:passwd AT IP.ofyour.ftp.server).  That's a bit of speculation on my part
arrived at after seeing some error messages.  Maybe because the full mount
is not included in BL3 mc can't run mount -t ftpfs?  Further feedback
appreciated.

James