Re: FTP strangeness

[tai <tai_(_at_)_urd_(_dot_)_spidernet_(_dot_)_to>]

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, [iso-8859-1] Rémi Guyomarch wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 11:54:45AM -0500, tai wrote:
> > Heyas,
> > 	A friend was transfering two files, one 250 megs, one 150 megs to
> > my openbsd box.  Running stock 2.7.  He is running windows 98 behind a
> > Linux Nat box.  The ftp prog was cuteftp.  I watched it during the
> > transfer, and both files were transfered in the entirety.  However, after
> > each file was finished, the filesize became:
> > 
> > -rw-r--r--  1 user  group  5525472 Oct 14 02:52 file1.ext
> > -rw-r--r--  1 user  group  5525472 Oct 14 05:05 file2.ext
> 
> I've transferred full ISO images (650 MB) multiple times to and from
> an obsd 2.7-stable box. The ftp server was what comes with obsd and the

	Me too 8-)

> client was WS-FTP on an NT4 box. I bet the culprit in your case is the
> client, but sometimes Linux does strange things :)

	Well, I am thinking it is the client, because during the transfer,
the file size did increase to the 150meg/250meg point.  However, after the
transaction was finished, well, you see the results above.  I am putting my
money on cuteftp as I've had a problem with it before where an earlier
version could ftp fine to my netware servers, but a later version could
not.  After a couple of weeks, they figured out that they took out some
code that apparently was rather important 8-)
	I was hoping other people might have seen this, and maybe have a
work around.
	Thanx.

-Tai
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