The HPRC needed to obtain a 3MB tar archive of mine so they could duplicate
a problem with the diff shell utility.

I suggested that the engineer ftp it off of my anonymous ftp site, but he was
unable to get through the internal HP firewall.

So then the engineer tried to download the file via a dial-up modem connection,
but the phone lines were too noisy and the download never ran to completion.

Then I suggested that I e-mail it to him, but he said he doesn't have that kind
of incoming e-mailbox capacity.

So now I have to postal mail a DDS tape to Mountain View to transfer a file
that I thought would have been easy to do over the Internet.

Can anybody from HP elaborate about HPRC access to the Internet?  Is ftp
flat-out forbidden, or should the engineer have been able to do it if he knew
how?
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