Thanks to all who responded, I haven't reached a solution or been able to pinpoint the exact cause yet. But as suggested I looked at ncftp, which led me to possible causes for the problem. I installed ncftp client since the server I was connecting to has ncftpd running. Doing this helped bring more files over but the ftp session still hung (all be it much later tahn before). While running ncftp in the debug mode I saw something that I need help with. By default ncftp runs in BIN mode, but there are certain files that come in ascii mode no matter what. and one of my sessions running nfctp which hung, hung on the file that comes in ascii mode. Question is how can that particular file come in ascii mode over and over again (eventhough type is bin and all other files come in bin mode) and is this related to the hung ftp sessions? TIA Original posting : Subject: ftp problems Hi, Not sure if this email reached the group or not. Problem I am having is while doing a mget * after about 10-15 minutes ftp hangs. There's enough space on the destination server and there are few hundred files still needing to be ftp'd from teh source. Tried ftp a few times but it hangs every time. Any help appreciated. Will summarize Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.aspReceived on Thu Aug 16 16:55:57 2001
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