jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen") (11/12/90)
Seth, your mail forwarder generates bizarre reverse paths. I tried to reply to your message to our support group, but I neglected to read the header and it bounced as follows: > From MAILER-DAEMON@harvisr.harvard.edu Thu Nov 8 17:21:58 1990 > Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown > To: <jbvb@vax.ftp.com> > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 550 <wet!@cca.ucsf.EDU:seth>... Host unknown Anyway, on the manual page in the Command Reference for the 'kernel', note the existence of the '-t' switch, which can be used to change the number of TCP connections allocated at startup. The maximum you'll get with local descriptors is around 10 or 12, depending on how many other files you have open (a program that doesn't need data files can open 15 even if it doesn't close the stdxxx handles, but you're using ftp_get(), which implies at least one data file). Each ftp_open() creates a 'control' TCP connection, and one more TCP will be needed by ftp_get() for the 'data' connection. James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880 FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901