Thank you for the suggestion. The only thing that did any good in the end was typing ftp www.speakupmodified.org when in the command prompt. Yes, I do mean www, not ftp. (Maybe that's not strange, but I thought it was.) From there, I did get myself to the correct directory. How can I determine which files to download with the mget command? (Is there a document containing this information?) I rechecked the installation howto I got by way of www.linux-speakup.org which applies to installing FC3. The contents of the 3 directory is very different from that in the 5/RPMS directory, though. Related, do I need to use different or fewer of these RPMS to do an upgrade from FC2 rather than a full install? Thanks to anybody who can help. Propaine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Wagner" <wagner.andrew@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 4:15 PM Subject: Re: The Case of the Unknown Host > I put ftp://speakupmodified.org into my browser and navigated using > the link you posted to tell me what directories to try. It looks like > current is just a shortcut to 5, so try pasting this into your > browser: > ftp://speakupmodified.org/fedora/speakupmodified/5/RPMS/ > > On 5/26/06, propaine <propaine at verizon.net> wrote: > > Greetings! > > > > In the hope of downloading the Speakup-modified FC5 images, I've just tried several times to ftp to > > > > ftp://ftp.SpeakupModified.Org/fedora/speakupmodified/current/RPMS/ > > > > I just got this link via a Google search. When I followed it as a link from the message my search had landed on, I saw a user name of anonymous, but I found no place to put a password and seemed unable to do anything but click on Internet Explorer's most unhelpful help. > > > > When I try using ftp from the command prompt, I get "unknown host." I typed using all lowercase, and again with exactly the capitalization as above. I even tried eliminating everything after the .Org. I think I tried both with and without the slash at the end. > > > > I did that Google search a few minutes ago because I had the same problem with > > > > ftp://SpeakupModified.org/fedora/speakupmodified/current/RPMS/ > > > > even using the Linux machine I had in my classroom this morning. I drew hope from the small difference in the link I got this afternoon, but it seems there's something wrong other than the ftp address. > > > > I looked at a chapter on ftp in an old Harley Hahn book on using the Internet, and it seems to me that I have the syntax right. I know I must be missing something, though. Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Propaine > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.7.1/348 - Release Date: 5/25/2006 > >
