Re: Where is ftp.sco.com/pub/openserver ?

From: Jean-Pierre Radley (jpr_at_jpr.com)
Date: 04/14/04 

Date: 13 Apr 2004 18:37:51 -0400

James J typed (on Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 10:17:06PM +0000):
| Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> expounded in
| news:20040413211322.GR21316@jpradley.jpr.com:
|
| > James J typed (on Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 08:49:57PM +0000):
| >| Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> expounded in
| >| news:20040413191305.GO21316@jpradley.jpr.com:
| >|
| >| > Bob Bailin typed (on Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 03:39:59PM +0000):
| >| >| ftp.sco.com is still there, but there's very little left
| >| >| in the pub directory other than skunkware &
| >| >| unixware. Where's all the openserver stuff now?
| >| >
| >| > It's back...
| >|
| >| ftp.sco.com is there, but it seems to be virtually empty. I'm using
| >| Netscape 7.02 and all I see on ftp.sco.com is:
| >|
| >| Legal_Notice 1 KB 8/8/03 12:00:00 AM
| >| bin/ 3/14/00 12:00:00 AM
| >| etc/ 3/14/00 12:00:00 AM
| >| lib/ 11/19/99 12:00:00 AM
| >| pub/ 1/19/04 5:30:00 PM
| >| welcome.msg 1 KB 9/19/03 12:00:00 AM
| >|
| >| bin contains gzip, ls, tar and a directory (?) named zcat.
| >| etc contains group and passwd.
| >| lib is empty.
| >| And when I try to access pub, if NS says anything, it's "the document
| >| contains no data".
| >|
| >| Are you seeing more than that?
| >
| > Considerably more, absol;utely.
| >
| > Don't use a browser for such searches, because you might end up looking
| > at what you last cached. Did you force a refresh, or try ncftp or ftp?
|
| This is really odd. Yes, I have told NS to "refresh" several times and it
| says that it's connecting to ftp.sco.com and all seems to go well, but I
| keep getting the same list. I exited NS and restarted. Same list. Then I
| started IE 5 and tried it and I get exactly the same list of files. IE 5
| is obviously not using the NS cache and I don't know that I've ever gone to
| ftp.sco.com with IE before, certainly not any time recently, so it's a
| pretty safe bet that IE is not reading that abbreviated list from its
| cache. Trying to open pub in IE gives me the standard IE "page cannot be
| displayed" error page.
| I don't know if this is relevant, but when I try to go to ftp.sco.com in
| IE, IE gives me a message about wanting to install some kind of "browsing
| enhancements". I've seen this before. The problem is, if I click on OK it
| just fails and says to use "Windows Update" to install that component. But
| I've used "WU" before and I've never seen that there. Maybe it's buried in
| something else that I haven't installed. IAC, since the install doesn't
| work, I click on Cancel and IE displays ftp.sco.com and I see exactly the
| same list that I see in NS. I'm wondering if maybe ftp.sco.com is doing
| something that IE 5 and NS 7.02 (at least, my copy) don't understand.
| Maybe that's what the "browsing enhancements" box in IE is referring to?
|
| I tried opening ftp.sco.com in the DOS/Win FTP program (I'm writing this
| under Windows and that was the first alternative I thought of) and at first
| I couldn't get a directory listing. I could connect and login, but when I
| tried dir or ls I would get "425 Unable to build data connection: Invalid
| argument". But I just tried it again and it's working now. The root
| directory is exactly the same, but FTP.EXE does show me stuff in pub (ie.
| "dir pub" gives me a long list). NS and IE still won't show me what's in
| pub. They don't say it's empty. They can't seem to open it at all. But
| they have no problem opening the other directories (although lib appears to
| be empty).
|
| I'm stumped.

Could you play at being Nancy Reagan, and "just say no" to Windoze?

If you need stuff from ftp.sco.com it ain't for Windoze, it's for your
SCO machine. So just quit Windoze, and from your SCO box, use ftp (if
you must) or preferably, ncftp. 

-- 
JP

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