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From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: bug in cpp?
Date: 28 Jan 93 21:16:56 GMT
	<1993Jan27.192855.9198@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Organization: University of Edinburgh Dept. of Computer Science, Scotland

In article <1993Jan27.192855.9198@serval.net.wsu.edu>, hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:
> In article <1993Jan27.105225.3418@athena.mit.edu>, ludger.kunz@fernuni-hagen.de (Ludger Kunz) writes:
> |> Today i tried to compile gzip-0.8.1. Everything worked fine except for
> |> the assembler file. The file match.S is preprocessed by cpp with
> |> the following command:
> |> /lib/cpp -DUNDERLINE match.S > _match.s

It shouldn't.  There is a bug (at least an incompatibility) in 0.8.1
which causes this error, but the configure script ought to catch this
and elect to compile without the optional assembly code file.

> |> When trying to compile the _match.s-file with gcc, the following
> |> 2 messages occur:
> |> match.s:51: invalid character '_' in opcode
> |> match.s:63: invalid character '_' in opcode
> |> 
> |> Looking at the file _match.s leads to the lines
> |> 
> |>     _match_init :
> |> and 
> |>     _longest_match :
> |> 
> |> Removing the blank between the label and the colon leads to a successful 
> |> compilation.

Indeed.  This is a "feature" of the Linux cpp, and one which I am not
sure is correct: cpp inserts spaces after macro expansions.  Certainly
the sun cpp does not do this.  It also makes it awkward to use cpp to
produce neat human-readable output; you get annoying double spaces
everywhere.

HJ, is this correct behaviour?

> |> Another bug concerns the following code:
> |>  add     $window+2,%edi
> |> This leads to an error while linking. The symbol window must be replaced with

Yup - the gnu cpp allows '$' in identifiers, so it sees the identifier
"$window" rather than "window", and fails to expand it.  I think that
"cpp -$" is supposed to suppress this behaviour.

> For gzip-0.8.1 with gcc 2.3.3 + 0.99.4, I did
> configure
> vi Makefile # remove getopt.o which is in libc.a
> make

Yes, that should work, but it won't link in the fast 386 assembler
code for the reasons above.

I found this bug a couple of days ago, and the gzip maintainer
(Jean-loup Gailly <jloup@fr.chorus>) has fixed it for the next
release, gzip-0.8.2, at an archive site near you now.  (He has
basically worked around the Linux cpp incompatibilities by having
identifiers _with_ underscores by default, which Linux likes, and only
running cpp on the file if it is necessary to remove those
underscores: the opposite of the gzip-0.8.1 behaviour.)  0.8.2 also
fixes the buggette which prevents zcatting .z files with multiple hard
links.  It's worth upgrading.

Cheers,
 Stephen Tweedie.
---
Stephen Tweedie <sct@uk.ac.ed.dcs>   (Internet: <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>)
Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
From: jan@pandonia.canberra.edu.au (Jan Newmarch)
Subject: Re: MWM??
Organization: Info Sci & Eng, University of Canberra, AUSTRALIA
Date: 25 Jan 93 06:53:11 GMT

In <C1BFx4.Lu@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> varney@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bruce Varney) writes:

>garyt@lgc.com writes:

>>>The other solution to have mwm on your Linux is to buy the mwm sources
>>>at OSF and adapt it to your Linux...Quite expensive, but maybe not
>>>impossible for big research centers or education sites.....
>>>
>>>Did someone try that?
>>
>>We have the sources for Motif 1.1.1 and I had no troubles compiling
>>them on Linux.  No "adapting" necessary. :-)

>	I am not sure how your license reads, but is there any way you
>would be able to make the binaries available??

No way. Motif is not shareware, copy-left or public domain - it is a
commercial product, and a distribution license costs heaps. Universities
can buy a source license for their site at $2000, for other
organisations it is $20000. What you need to do if this cost is not
acceptable is probably to try to pursuade one of the companies already
distributing Motif binaries to knock up a copy for you - and I don't
fancy your chances!
	
				Jan

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Jackson)
Subject: bug in CVS-1.3 or <signal.h>:__sigmask
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Summary: bug, either in include file or in cvs
Reply-To: ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Jackson)
Organization: Olivetti Research Ltd
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:40:12 GMT

I don't know if anybody else has tried to install CVS with recent-ish
header files, but anybody doing so (and also Hlu!) might be interested
to know the following:

CVS tries
        for (i=1; sigismember(&set,i)==1; i++) { ... }
where set has been initialised using sigfillset.

The definition of sigismember in <signal.h> involves anding the set
with __sigmask(i), which is defined (also in <signal.h>) as
        #define __sigmask(sig)  (1 << ((sig) - 1))

Since sigfillset makes a word with all bits set (NSIG is 32), and
shifting by greater than or equal to the size of a word produces
implementation defined behaviour (K&R2 A7.8, p206; using gcc-2.3.3 on
a 386 results in the shift distance being reduced modulo 32 before the
shift) the result is an infinite loop.

Unfortunately I don't have access to any POSIX documentation to find
out which of <signal.h> and CVS is right (ie, whether CVS is allowed
to pass to sigismember a signal number which is out of range), so I
don't know which file to patch.

In the meantime I've changed both, for safety's sake. Here are the two
patches, first to <signal.h> and then to {your-cvs-dir}/lib/sighandle.c:

NB Please DON'T just run this article through patch - it won't work right !

*** signal.h~   Mon Nov 23 17:30:12 1992
--- signal.h    Thu Jan 21 21:45:27 1993
***************
*** 75,81 ****
  
  
  /* Return a mask that includes SIG only.  */
! #define __sigmask(sig)  (1 << ((sig) - 1))
  
  extern sigset_t       __sigsetmask __P ((sigset_t __mask));
  extern sigset_t       __siggetmask __P ((void));
--- 75,81 ----
  
  
  /* Return a mask that includes SIG only.  */
! #define __sigmask(sig)  (sig <= _NSIG ? 1 << ((sig) - 1) : 0)
  
  extern sigset_t       __sigsetmask __P ((sigset_t __mask));
  extern sigset_t       __siggetmask __P ((void));

*** lib/sighandle.c.~1~ Fri Jan 22 13:52:43 1993
--- lib/sighandle.c     Fri Jan 22 13:53:23 1993
***************
*** 112,118 ****
  
  #ifdef POSIX
        (void) sigfillset(&sigset_test);
!       for (i = 1; sigismember(&sigset_test, i) == 1; i++)
                ;
        if (i < SIGMAX)
                i = SIGMAX;
--- 112,118 ----
  
  #ifdef POSIX
        (void) sigfillset(&sigset_test);
!       for (i = 1; i <= NSIG && sigismember(&sigset_test, i) == 1; i++)
                ;
        if (i < SIGMAX)
                i = SIGMAX;

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From: hosp@frost.uni-paderborn.de (Holger Spangardt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux and MS-DOS
Date: 26 Jan 1993 14:16:16 +0100
Organization: Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: frost.uni-paderborn.de
Keywords: partition

syy@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com (Sang Y. Yum) writes:


>Hello, everyone!  Again, I turn to net-wisdom for the solution to my problem.

>I have a 120MB IDE Drive and 500MB SCSI Drive on my 386/33 with 8MB RAM.
>I've been trying to install Linux and DOS on these drive with no success.

>What I am trying to do basically is this:

>	First Drive: 120MB IDE
>		100MB extended Linux file system
>		20MB linux file system for swap file
>	Second Drive: 500MB SCSI
>		500MB Dos partition


>I tried the following and failed.

>	1. Pulled out IDE Drive.
>	2. Installed DOS on SCSI drive.
>	3. Put back IDE Drive.
>	4. Installed Linux on IDE drive.
>	5. Installed Lilo 0.8 with correct configuration (I think)
>	6. Linux boots fine.
>	6. DOS complains non-system disk.

>Sang
Of course, DOS doesn't recognize the Linux-partitions there a no other 
partitions on the 1st HD so DOS cannot boot from HD. To boot both systems from
HD you need to install lilo or bootlin or... You shouldn't pull out any HD's
during installing the systems. First of all you'll have to decide which of the
HD's should be the main HD. There is a jumper on the SCSI-HD to change these
things. Then you should install DOS on the first HD (I think it can't be
installed on any other) then you should install Linux (which is quite flexible)
and at the end you need to make them both bootable as described in lilo.doc
for example.
Ciao,
	Holger

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho)
Subject: Re: TRIDENT-8900 series problem with XWindows
Organization: NullNet r.y.
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 21:27:57 GMT

In article <mtrottie.38.0@emr1.emr.ca> mtrottie@emr1.emr.ca (Marc Trottier) writes:
>Trying to configure my Video Card to run XWindows under SLS, I ran into some
>little problems...
>
>Video Card:     TVGA-8900 (8916 to be more precise)
>
>This is the error message that I'm getting when running "startx":
>
>	Creating TCP socket: Invalid argument
>	XFree86 Version 1.0Ya / X Window System
>	(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
>	Configured drivers:
>		VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
>		et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
>	Trident driver only supports TVGA8900C

>According to the FAQ doc. There is no need to specify the "chipset" 
>or "clock" with the TRIDENT-8900C.
True.

>So what is the problem???
>1- Does SLS support only TRIDENT-8900C and not other from 8900 series?
Exactly. Just as the error message you got (see above) says:
  Only TVGA8900C (note the capital C) chip is supported. No other revisions.
  The technical facts of why this is so escape my memory, but I'm sure
  someone else can tell.

>2- Or is my Video Card BIOS too old? If yes, is it upgradable?
Linux doesn't use any BIOSes after boot-up. As far as I know.

..Wolf
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
Subject: SVGA mode selection at start-up doesn't work for me : -(
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:32:50 GMT

When Linux boots up, it gives the prompt
	Press <RETURN> to see SVGA-modes available or <SPACE> to continue.

If I press return, then the screen changes to a rolling grayish display.
Pressing a number will then result in another unreadable display, eg.
a rolling purple. By typing blind and watching the disk drive lights, I
can determine that Linux is actually still working, but the screen remains
useless.

The same problem occurs with Linux 0.98.1, 0.98.3 and 0.99.1.
My VGA BIOS proclaims itself as a "Quadtel" product. I'm not sure
exactly what sort of board it is; it didn't come with any manuals :-(

Suggestions, anyone? Any help would be much appreciated.

(If you follow-up on the newsgroup, please mail me a copy of your reply -
I don't always manage to keep up with the sheer volume of comp.os.linux ;-)

-- 
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This .signature virus is a self-referential statement that is true - but 
you will only be able to consistently believe it if you copy it to your own
.signature file!
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: entropy@world.std.com (The Entropic one)
Subject: Re: kernal error(?) 99p5
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:49:45 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.143815.2112@unislc.uucp> erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
>I didn't know Linus had gotten to p5 yet.

He hasn't but it turns out that p5 will have a serious bug which causes the
ethernet card to transmit packets backwards in time :-)

Fortunitly in the future I notice this problem and have been sending my self
stock market news. I purchased 100,000 options to sell IBM stock the day
before it had trouble....

BTW-I only wish I could have afforded them, even time travel doesn't help
    if your past self has $0 :-(
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bangell@cs.utah.edu (bob angell)
Subject: Where are these libraries???
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:01:25 MST


where might I find these libraries (archie didn't work for this one!!)

	libX112.1
	libXaw2.1

thanks a bunch - BTW, I installed the SLS 1.0 just recently....

-Bob-

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: br.pct@RLG.Stanford.EDU (PCT)
Subject: X.25 under LinUX
Organization: Research Libraries Group, Inc.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:04:43 GMT

Hi,
  (1) Is BSD Unix X.25 Transport/Network/Link Layers software ported to 
LinUX yet?

  (2) Is there also an X.25 Adaptor Driver for any chosen X.25 Adaptor on PC
for LinUX?

  Thank You for any information !!!!!!
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: p412rei@fs1 (Reinhold Schaaf)
Subject: Problem with lpr/lpd solved?
Keywords: lpr
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:21:03 GMT

Hi world,

there was a discussion in this newsgroup some weeks ago about problems
with lpr/lpd in SLS 0.99p2. Lpr can queue printjobs but is unable
to start lpd again. It seemed to be the general opinion that this
problem has to do with ownership and/or permissions of files. However,
there was the claim of one poster that she found a bug in the lpr (or
lpd) code.

Unfortunately the discussion stopped at that point and I am left alone
with my nonworking version of lpr. So, *please*, can anyone tell me the
truth about lpr? Is it a question of file ownership/permissions or a
bug? If it is a bug, is there a fix?

Thank you all in advance

Reinhold Schaaf
From: albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Craig T Manske)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Permission denied
Date: 23 Jan 1993 03:08:02 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

Ok, call me a bonehead :).  make config worked, and it actually *WAS* in the
README that was in the directory.
 
 This is just another testimonial that you should READ README files and not
skim them.

Albion
From: benj@s-link.escape.de (Benjamin Harling)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Is there any demand for intro to lin
Organization: -S-LINK-> Public Mailbox, Braunschweig, Germany
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 12:00:00 +0100

MDGAUTHI%MOTHRA.SYR.EDU@S-UUCP.ZER meinte am 20.01.93
zum Thema "Is there any demand for intro to linux f":

> From: mdgauthi@mothra.syr.EDU (Mad Dog)
> Followup-To: mdgauthi@mailbox.syr.edu
> Subject: Is there any demand for intro to linux files?
> Message-ID: <1993Jan20.145515.22835@newstand.syr.edu>
> Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
>
> I am considering starting to work on some new users guides for linux mainly
> to consolidate the heaps of notes on unix that are lying around here into
> some usable form.  Is there anyone out there in linux land with any interest
> in such a beast.  These guides would deal with how to use a linux system
> to accomplish tasks and not as any sort of documentation for the os itself.
> Rather, they would be more like a set of copylefted unix books focusing on
> linux instead of bsd or sys V.

I definetly am! I myself was considering to make some kind of manual
to help newbies getting started. Especially to help them getting an idea
of how Unix works. I.e. what happens when the OS is booting, what files are
involved and how one can customize the system. Or some hints to very dangerous
commands like "rm -r *", or how to get the printer producing output, etc.
Since I consider myself kind of a newbie, although I'm working with Unix for
quite a while, the idea was to log my solutions and understandings while I'm
improving my knowledge of the system. Maybe we can put our manpower together
to create such a beast. Let me know how you think about it.

Gruss Benjamin    (that's greetings in german ;-)

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From: liesche@byron.u.washington.edu (Jochen Liesche)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Another question...
Date: 28 Jan 93 08:18:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1k84spINNkj4
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: byron.u.washington.edu

In article <1k6b3nINNs83@rave.larc.nasa.gov> jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () writes:
>Oops...I forgot to ask in my previous post...
>I just noticed that I have a *bunch* of zombie portmap
>processes when I do a ps aux...what I get is:
>USER        PID %CPU %MEM SIZE  RSS TT STAT START   TIME COMMAND
>root          1  0.0  2.7   44  200 ?  S    18:34   0:00 init
>root         54  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    18:34   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
>root        103  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    09:54   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
>-more
>
>any idea whats going on ? How do I get rid of these zombie 
>processes ?
>
 
I can't help you with the cause, but the only way to get rid of zombies(you can't kill them(they're already dead)) is to kill the parent process.  The ownership of the zombies goes to init(PID 1), which immediately reclaims them.  So, if you start running into max process problems, you can do that(if possible).
Sorry I'm not of more help.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ruediger@ramz.ing.tu-bs.de (Ruediger Helsch)
Subject: Re: Shared Libraries (Was: Creeping featur(i)sm)
Organization: Mechanikzentrum, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:18:40 GMT

In article <jeremy.727514644@chao>, jeremy@sw.oz.au (Jeremy Fitzhardinge) writes:
> I would suggest that mmap() type shared memory should be implemented.

I second this. The 386bsd people are working on a superior system of shared
libraries, and their shared libraries will be based on mmap(). If linux had
mmap(), we could adopt their system with little effort.

Ruediger Helsch <ruediger@ramz.ing.tu-bs.de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: remmons@iat.holonet.net (Robert Emmons)
Subject: X Window Installation
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:41:39 GMT

Well, I've installed Xwindow on my system, but I can't get it to
do anything. When I type "startx", I just get another UNIX prompt
and a "core" file. The "core" file says:
 
    warning no client init file
    warning no server init file
    Server error
    Client error
    Xserver to begin accepting connections
    giving up
    wating for %s. no server %s in PATH
 
and a lot of other stuff. "X" is in my PATH, linked to "X386".
 
If I just type "xinit", I get "Segmentation fault (core dumped)"
plus the same stuff as I got with "startx".
 
xinit apparently never gets to loading "Xconfig", because I tried
"mv"ing it and I get no complaints that it can't be found.
 
My setup is: a Diamond Speedstar VGA board with a Tseng ET-4000AX
chip and a MAG Computronics 1448 monitor. My system is a TriStar
386/33MHz. I know there's a FAQ item that says X doesn' work with
Diamond, but other docs and postings say it does. I'm using Linux
v0.97p2. I was hoping to avoid upgrading until v1.00 since it is
difficult for me to download megabyte files.
 
I would appreciate any hints you can give.
 
Robert Emmons: remmons@holonet.net
From: hosp@frost.uni-paderborn.de (Holger Spangardt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Starting X11 - Theres got to be a better way!!!
Date: 26 Jan 1993 13:55:41 +0100
Organization: Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
Distribution: w
NNTP-Posting-Host: frost.uni-paderborn.de

bangell@cs.utah.edu (bob angell) writes:

>Just have been playing with X11 .... and all I can do to start a decent
>windows program is do the following:

>	xinit

>and it starts up with one xterm and then I have to start twm from the
>command-line .... where the hell is the xinit script located anyway??!?
>(tried to tweak every Xconfig/xinitrc and other files I could think of)

>-Bob-
 try 'startx' (SLS-Distr. only ??)
 or  'xstart' as on most un*x-systems (or set a link on startx)

Ciao,
	Holger.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: zafiris@rtsg.mot.com (John Zafiris)
Subject: Actix GE32
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:33:35 GMT

 
 
I'd like to thank everybody for their kind responses to my request
for information about the Actix GraphicsEngine32.
 
I ordered an Actix GraphicsEngine32+ with 2MB for $243 from
CSI in Colorodo (800)733-9798.
 

The following is a list of places to get the card:
 
OKY, CO (303) 440-6969 
NTD, Tx (800) 998-1699 
        (800) 998-0170 
CSI, CO (800) 733-9798 
 
Palo Alto Micro (415)493-8209 
    Actix GraphicsEngine32b     .... $210
 
Actix Systems   
3060 Tasman Dr. 
Santa Clara, CA 95054
  Manufacturer direct number is:
  1(800)927-5557 & (408)986-1625
  They sell them direct. 
 
DPS (mail order company in Longmont, CO.)
 (800) 669-8194 
 

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: najem@cs.uiuc.edu (Ziad H. Najem)
Subject: Re: fax-3.2.1 posted to Linux?
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:17:45 GMT

erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:

>Has anyone ported fax-3.2.1 to Linux yet?

I will upload an ALPHA version tonight or tomorrow night. 
email me at najem@cs.uiuc.edu if you're interested in testing it. 


>-- 
>Ed Carp			erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com	801/538-0177

>"It is your resistance to 'what is' that causes your suffering."   -- Buddha

 - Ziad
   najem@cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler)
Subject: Re: SLS
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-5789]: atlas
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:58:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.201506.19400@dgbt.doc.ca> gilles@dgbt.doc.ca (Gilles Gagnon) writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.131617.5610@athena.mit.edu>, Alex Kambis <kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov> writes:
>|> 
>...
>|> 
>|>    1) Xwindows works great! (but if I xlock as anyone but root,  it
>|>       won't recognize my password.  My only? option is to reset.)

>On this problem, it happened to me once and CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE got me out of
>xlock by getting me out of Xfree completely. I am afraid that the fact that
>I could get out of xlock and X11 by doing so could lead to a security problem.
>
xlock doesn't recognize you're password because of the shadow password setup
on the sls distruibution. The only way to correct the problem with CTRL-ALT-
BACKSPACE if to turn it off (NoZap or something like that in Xconfig).

Larry


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tanner@csunix (root@insight)
Subject: termftp installation
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:34:02 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
X-Posted-From: csunix.cs.uwec.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I grabbed the termftp source, compilation was fine. But there was no README and
just a minimal manpage. Can someone tell me how to install termftp?  A simple
answer of ".. just install it like regular ftp work be great..."