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Date: 9 Feb 88 00:50:10 GMT
From: Michael Cohen <apple!sun!bu-cs.bu.edu!bucasb!mike at Sun.COM>
Organization: Boston U., Center for Adaptive Systems
Subject: Silicon Graphics ftp Bug
Message-Id: <571366210.10744 at bucasb.bu.edu>
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In communicating with a BSD 4.3 machine SGI ftp doesn't seem
to be able to do mputs or mgets.  This is true if I either attmpt
to mget from a remote machine or mput locally.  I get different error
messages in each case.  ftp using put or get works fine.  Has anybody
seen bugs like this before.