Several of you may have encountered difficulty downloading the
Webinator distribution using the Netscape Web browser. This
is because there may be a bug in Navigator's implementation
of FTP which interacts in a negative way with our firewall.
We have reported the bug to Netscape. We apologize for not
finding this sooner. At any rate, if you use a standard
FTP client you should have no problems getting the binary.
We will be altering our FTP site in the very near future to
allow Netscape FTP clients to behave. In the meantime, the
following transcript will help guide you through the FTP
commands:
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ftp ftp.thunderstone.com
Connected to ftp.thunderstone.com.
220 ftp.thunderstone.com FTP server ready.
Name (ftp.thunderstone.com:bart): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, type your name as password.
Password: bart@thunderstone.com
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> bin
200 Type set to I.
ftp> cd /prod/webinator/linux
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> prompt off
Interactive mode off.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
total 6907
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1110 22 9 Aug 9 17:29 readme -> ../readme
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1110 22 3535809 Nov 14 16:42 webinator.tar.Z
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> mget *
local: readme remote: readme
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'readme' (739 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
739 bytes received in 0.01 seconds (72.01 Kbytes/s)
local: webinator.tar.Z remote: webinator.tar.Z
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'webinator.tar.Z' (3535809 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
3535809 bytes received in 1.81 seconds (1903.41 Kbytes/s)
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.