Jennifer Downs writes:
> Since this is my first foray into POSIX, I'm having a bit of trouble with
> uploading my own files. I've used a number of different FTP programs...all
> of them respond differently. The best results have been with Reflection FTP
> Client (Windows FTP and WS_FTP were miserable failures)...however, when I
> upload my own html files, they default with owner read/write,
> not -rw-r--r--. This means I have to do a chmod to make it possible for my
> browser to read it. Hardly practical. Any thoughts on why and how to get
> around this?

The HPUX ftp server supports UMASK and CHMOD commands, but it looks like
HP didn't implement these for MPE 5.5.

> How do most folks who run Apache generate their web pages?
> (Please don't tell me you create them on the 3000 with ed or vi -- scary
> thought. :-)) What FTP clients do you use?

<GEEK>I create many of my web pages directly with vi.</GEEK>  ;-)  Other web
pages I create with Netscape Communicator's Composer.

I use the Reflection FTP client.  The new 7.0 client is pretty cool.

> Another FTP problem....when I pull the .conf files down to my PC and open
> them up with a text editor, they line break at every character, producing
> one very long file with a letter on each line. Thoughts on why this would be
> happening and what I should do about it?

When you ftp, make sure you use bytestream/tenex/local8 mode.  I've seen the
one character per line syndrome when using ASCII mode; I don't know if this is
a bug or a feature.
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