Subject: Re: problem with zipped files?

From: Yanming PENG <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 96 17:00:57 WET

> This is not the first time I have heard this, but being a unix person, I
> don't understand it (everything looks fine to me). The file in question
> is a symlink to another file: 
> 
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 rjl   2461       12 Sep 28 19:31 gs351fn1.zip@ -> gs333fn1.zip
> -rw-r--r--   1 rjl   1385  1365916 Oct  2  1994 gs333fn1.zip
> 
> anyone got any ideas?

In some DOS/Winsock FTP client, there is an option to treat symlink either
as file or as directory. Not matter what option you set, you will have
problem any way. In above case, the option is set to treat symlink as dir.
In fact, gs351fn1.zip points to a file :-(

> thanks,
> 	--david

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