david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (David Kaufmann) (01/07/91)
I'm trying to download some files from um-mts.cc.umich.edu, either directly to my mac or to the unix site to which I'm connected. I've gotten the READ.ME file which tells me where the mac files are, and the READ.ME file in the directory there which tells me there's another file which will tell me how to download to a mac. When I try to use the ftp "get" command for that file (DO/DOWNLOAD) I get the following message: -- 451 Internal systems failure (Chkfile) -- What does this mean? Is there a way around this? (All the files there are listed as DIRECTORY/FILE, but I think the site wants colons some where. Help is appreciated. E-mail is fine. Thanks in advance. David Kaufmann INTERNET: david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu
amunn@umd5.umd.edu (Alan Munn) (01/08/91)
In article <5575@rex.cs.tulane.edu> david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (David Kaufmann) writes: > >I'm trying to download some files from um-mts.cc.umich.edu >I've gotten the READ.ME file which tells me where the mac files are, and >the READ.ME file in the directory there which tells me there's another >file which will tell me how to download to a mac. Read the READ.ME files carefully! Notice that the sample commands for getting files always look like get <DIR/FILE> <filename> e.g. get DO/DOWNLOAD2 download.txt. For some reason (probably because the machine is running VMS?) you MUST give a local filename as well. (I've posted this because other may have had the same problems. Mike Dauterman, if you read this, you might want to ammend the DOWNLOAD2 file accordingly. Most people on UNIX systems just assume that you don't need a local filename) > >David Kaufmann >INTERNET: david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu Alan <amunn@umd5.umd.edu>
ashwin@gatech.edu (Ashwin Ram) (01/09/91)
In article <7810@umd5.umd.edu> amunn@umd5.umd.edu (Alan Munn) writes: > Read the READ.ME files carefully! Notice that the sample commands for > getting files always look like get <DIR/FILE> <filename> e.g. get > DO/DOWNLOAD2 download.txt. For some reason (probably because the > machine is running VMS?) you MUST give a local filename as well. I don't think this is anything to do with VMS. If you don't specify a local filename, FTP assumes that the local filename is the same as the remote filename. In other words, GET DO/DOWNLOAD2 is the same command as GET DO/DOWNLOAD2 DO/DOWNLOAD2. If you don't have a local directory called DO, FTP will fail to create DO/DOWNLOAD2 on your local machine and give you a (cryptic) error. The way around this, as you noted, is to specify the local filename explicitly. -- Ashwin.