On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 12:54:17AM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: > When I ftp to ftp.gimp.org and try to "get" some file (using ncftp2) it > tells me that ncftpd does no longer support ncftp version 2.0 (and forces > me to use plain ftp). > > Wouldn't it be much cooler to use a free and open-source'd ftp server > (that wouldn't try to force particular ftp clients on users)? The ftp daemon there, didn't bother me... ftp.gimp.org at Tue Oct 12 16:10:57 1999 get 889.19 kB ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/unstable/v1.1.10/patch-1.1.9-1.1.10.bz2 tyketto @ snark[/tmp/.tyketto] > ncftp -H Version: 2.4.3 (March 19, 1998) Author: Mike Gleason (mgleason@xxxxxxxxx) Archived in: ftp://ftp.NcFTP.com/ncftp/ Compile Date: May 11 1999 Compile options: USE_CURSES=2 __FreeBSD__ __GNUC__=2 HAVE_LIBNCURSES HAVE_LIBREADLINE HAVE_UNISTD_H LIBMALLOC LOCK_METHOD=2 NCURSES_VERSION="1.8.6/ache" _POSIX_VERSION=199009 POSIX_SIGNALS __STDC__ UNAME="FreeBSD node84.cdrom.com 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #1: Sat May 8 19:34:32 PDT 1999 asami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/src/" BL. -- Brad Littlejohn | Email: tyketto@xxxxxxxxxxxx Unix Systems Administrator, | tyketto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx WebMaster, NewsMaster.. Smeghead! :) | http://www.omnilinx.net/~tyketto PGP: 1024/E9DF4D85 67 6B 33 D0 B9 95 F4 37 4B D1 CE BD 48 B0 06 93