> 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.
