Unreliable FTP

[Eric Norman]

Anyone know how come it is that FTP sometimes doesn't
do anything when I do a "get file"?  It does the "transfer
complete" bit, but never transfers anything.  I've seen
cases where sometimes you have to try a few times to get
something transferred; other cases where I can't seem to get
one transferred no matter what.  It seems to only happen
on small files (20 lines or so), although I've been able
to transfer tiny (7 byte) files.  It smells like a timing
problem to me.  Could it be that the control connection
ends and shuts down the data connection before it even
starts or something like that?

I've always had to get around this by going to the "other
side" and doing a "put", which I've never seen fail.
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