Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:45:38 -0500
From: "Vlad D. Markov" <markov@monmouth.com>
To: gopher@complete.org
Cc: beaker@myrealbox.com
Subject: [gopher] Re: UM Gopher + FTP question
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:01:15 -0800
beaker@myrealbox.com wrote:

> Is the UM gopher client supposed to be able to natively browse ftp sites? 
> Thats the impression I get from the man page but I've tried several times 
> w/o luck. Using "f" and entering the anonymous ftp server address returns
> 
>  "Cannot connect to host gopher-gw.micro.umn.edu, port 70"
> 
>  "Unknown error."
> 
If one reads the fine print on the top of the form it says:
Connect to an anonymous FTP Server via the Gopher gateway

I don't think there is an anonymous gateway where its pointing.
The gateway is set in conf.h, you could change it to a valid
gateway & recompile if you knew of a valid one (I don't).

The folks at Debian are fixing this stuff up, maybe they have
plans to make ftp work.