ftp server frustrating

Vizion vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com
Tue May 31 16:09:53 GMT 2005


On Tuesday 31 May 2005 08:53, you wrote:
>do you know the name of the file you need? If you don't exactly know
>where it is, tell me what you are looking for and I will send you the
>URL top the file and you can just use fetch to grab it

Thanks -- I really appreciate your offer -- but I am hoping whoever is 
responsible for the server can solve what is, for me, an ongoing problem. The 
time settings on ftp.freebsd.org are just to low for manual access in any but 
the most perfect conditions. (I dread to think how someone who is blind or 
deaf could ever access the site manually!)
 
It is the general problem that cncerns me - if I am in some goddamned foreign 
port trying to get an individual file by ftp through using my waterproof 
windows rugged tablet for subsequent transfer to my on below decks freebsd 
server I do not want to have to be frustratingly disconnected because the 
typing speed on my tablet is limited!

The problem is people who work all day in a static environment forget about 
those who may be working in a far more rugged environment. I just can see no 
imperative reason for setting those timings so low!
David
-- 
40 yrs navigating and computing in blue waters.
English Owner & Captain of British Registered 60' bluewater Ketch S/V Taurus.
 Currently in San Diego, CA. Sailing May/June bound for Europe via Panama 
Canal.


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