Re: MC and linear transfer problem

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

Hello!

> OS: HP-UX 10.20
> mc: version 4.5.33

This version is very old.

> When running mc and trying to get files from a site via ftp then it
> happens that in cases where mc shows a bottom line with the text of
> about "starting linear transfer" then mc hangs at the end of getting the
> first file.
> 
> Besides the fact of hanging under the described circumstances mc doesn't
> set the local file settings to those of the remote file.
> 
> Is this a general problem of mc?

I don't know what a "general problem" means.  FTP support in mc has never
been very reliable.  It's getting better, but I believe it's still true
that a misbehaving FTP server can hang mc.

I would say that the "general problem" is that a lot of code wasn't
written with reliability and security in mind.  But that's the code we
have.  Things are improving, but slowly.

> Has this been solved in other mc versions?

I don't know about this problem, but almost every released version of GNU
Midnight Commander included some fixes for VFS and FTP support in
particular.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin