[Fink-devel] Re: why doesn't curl work for molmol

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Martin,
    Here I get...

ftp ftp://ftp.mol.biol.ethz.ch/software/MOLMOL/unix-gzip
Connected to imb-sv-30.ethz.ch.
220 Welcome to Molecular Biology FTP service.
331 Please specify the password.
230-
230-       Welcome to the ftp-Server of the Biophysics Group
230-       -------------------------------------------------
230-You are at the Institute of Molecular Biology & Biophysics of the
230-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) which is located in Z?rich
230-Switzerland.
230-
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
200 Switching to Binary mode.
250 Directory successfully changed.
250 Directory successfully changed.
local: unix-gzip remote: unix-gzip
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||9863|)
500 Bad EPRT protocol.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection.

...so it hangs before I can even type dir. This is with a Time Warner
cable connection attached to a WRTG54 wireless router. If a given ftp
site proves to be problematic is it possible to set...

ProxyPassiveFTP: false

at the level of the info script itself (for just that package)?
             Jack