Joseph Whitlock writes:
>
> HP3000 Folks,
>
> While ftp, (I happen to be in posix shell) this happens;
>
> **********************************
>
> ftp> put .sh_history.hold
> 200 PORT command ok.
> 150 File: .sh_history.hold;REC=,,B;DISC=2147483647,8 opened; data
> connection wil
>
> l be opened
> 226 Transfer complete.
> 519 bytes sent in 0.00 seconds (253.42 Kbytes/sec)
> ftp> put .profile
>
> **********************************
>
> ftp hangs up after the second put
> and the CPU in GLANCE is between 80-90%
>
> I know the . is a posix escape character so possibly
> I needed to issue the command;
>
> ftp> ./.profile
>
> but I am not sure.
>
> Any one else seen this kind of problem?
> (ftp normally works fine!)

This looks alot like a problem I had a few months ago.  It's not the name
syntax that's the issue, it's because of the bytestream file type.

The FTP client got stuck in an unabortable hard loop.

The latest FTP patch fixes this problem.
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