Sorry, Theo, but no ... I don't start FTP from within Arachne. The shell account I'm uploading to is the shell on my ISP's servers. I know how to move files around on my own system without something as convoluted as you envision.
As far as setting binary being an "option" in FTP, not really if you are uploading binary files. I know of no different way to "do" the FTP other than burdening the whole process down with the Arachne FTP segment (which is unnecessary). ==== On Fri, 28 Sep 01 16:59:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Schwartz) wrote: >> I've been having troubles with uploads to my shell using FTP ... more >> precisely, the longer the file is the slower the upload. >> I don't mean "the longer it takes" ... I mean that a short file might go >> up to the server [these are examples to explain, not actual] at >> 400Kbytes per sec, and a larger file would go up at 4Kbytes per sec. >> I don't use FTP from "within" Arachne; I'm always shelled out from an >> open session and have FTP & the file(s) I want to upload in the >> directory I'm working from. > Just a guess but: CUTE Telnet comes with 2 kinds of ftp: There is > a completely separate program called, I believe, fte.exe for DOS, and > there is a version of ftp built in as part of telnet.exe that acts like > an ftp server constantly monitoring a port, when you run the telnet > program. > By the above you could mean this: You load arachne, you start CUTE > telnet from arachne, you shell out of CUTE telnet to DOS, using telnet's > ALT-E command. Then you upload a file from DOS to the Unix shell you > telnetted to using the separate program, ftp.exe. > That would be a lot of dos memory used for little gain. In fact, you > could simply use a dialer and packet driver to connect dos to a Unix > ISP, and then run the dos ftp program directly to upload some file to > a target Unix host. There is no logical need to use arachne or > telnet.exe in this case at all. > I always start my telnet.exe by itself, almost always without first > starting arachne, and then do my built in ftp to do uploads and downloads. > I never had your problem. To do things that way: > telnet.exe hostname <ENTER> > to the Unix host you want to upload a file to. From the Unix host side > ftp to your DOS machine (the ftp built into telnet.exe will permit this > to happen). Then use the ``get filename'' command of the Unix version of > the ftp client to upload your file. See if you have the same problem that > way. > In general experiment with different ways of doing the ftp and see if > it makes a difference. If so, the problem may have to do with how you > DOS memory is reacting to your particular method. FTP also has options, > such as setting binary, etc. you can experiment with. -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
