This recently fromt he M PW-Dev mailing list.

Apple FTP servers have been goofy lately.

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Date:        3/16/01 3:28 AM
Received:    3/16/98 10:15 AM
From:        Greg Branche, gregb at apple.com
To:          mpw-dev at lists.apple.com

At 20:09 +0000 3/15/01, Ed Landamore wrote:
>I've recently been trying to download MPW from the apple ftp site.  As it is
>so large and I don't have a fast connection (I have 56k), I started on the
>segmented image.  I got the first four segments fine but then I stopped for
>a while as I didn't have any time then and we were planning to get unmetered
>access.  We have finally got this so I tried to carry on downloading it
>again.  This is where my troubles started.
>
>I use Interachy 4 for ftp. I went to the apple ftp site and found the right
>folder but it was empty!  I checked some others and everywhere I went there
>were folders but no files.
>
>I tried with various other programs and eventually managed to get to it
>properly using microsoft internet explorer.  However even then when I tried
>to download anything It quickly came up with errors partway through the
>download thus wasting any time allready spent on that download.
>
>The access with explorer is intermittent at best and now seems to have
>stopped working altogether. I did once get interacy to connect properly but
>not for long enough to download anything.
>
>I have used this site before and have even got part of MPW here on my
>computer.  Any help with this would be greatly appreciated as i have run out
>of ideas.
>

<http://developer.apple.com/tools/mpw-tools/mpw_faq.html#ftp2>
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Greg
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