Re: 20040815: building UDUNITS on Cygwin

Dipesh,

>Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:09:26 -0700
>From: Dipesh Patel <address@hidden>
>Organization: USDA
>To: "'Steve Emmerson'" <address@hidden>
>Subject: RE: 20040815: building UDUNITS on Cygwin 
> Keywords: 200408131907.i7DJ7QaW021117 UDUNITS

The above message contained the following:

> I cannot download the file.  The ftp server seems to be down or not
> responding.

Odd.  It works for me from outside our domain:

    $ hostname
    atm.geo.nsf.gov
    $ ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
    Connected to ftp.unidata.ucar.edu.
    220-Unauthorized access prohibited.
    220-
    220 laraine.unidata.ucar.edu FTP server ready.
    Name (ftp.unidata.ucar.edu:ldm): anonymous
    331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
    Password:
    ...
    Remote system type is UNIX.
    Using binary mode to transfer files.
    ftp> cd pub/udunits
    250-Please read the file README
    250-  it was last modified on Tue Aug  8 10:06:45 1995 - 3295 days ago
    250 CWD command successful.
    ftp> dir
    200 PORT command successful.
    150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
    total 5530
    drwxrwxr-x   3 1136     staff        512 Aug 17 18:39 .
    drwxrwxr-x  42 ldm      staff       1024 May 17 17:28 ..
    -rw-rw-r--   2 1136     staff        118 Aug  8  1995 README
    drwxrwxr-x   2 1136     staff        512 Feb 28  1997 contrib
    -rw-rw-r--   2 1136     staff     249099 Jun 27  1996 udunits-1.10.8.tar.Z
    -rw-rw-r--   1 1136     staff     343407 Jun 10  1997 udunits-1.11.4.tar.Z
    -rw-rw-r--   1 1136     staff     343485 Aug 18  1997 udunits-1.11.5.tar.Z
    -rw-rw-r--   1 1136     staff     344791 Feb 10  1998 udunits-1.11.6.tar.Z
    -rw-rw-r--   2 1136     staff     352699 Nov 25  1998 udunits-1.11.7.tar.Z
    -rw-rw-r--   1 1136     staff     364397 Aug 29  2003 udunits-1.12.0.tar.Z
    -rw-rw-r--   1 1136     staff     365873 Dec  1  2003 udunits-1.12.1.tar.Z
    -rw-rw-r--   1 1136     staff     365531 Aug 17 18:39 udunits-1.12.2.tar.Z
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 1136     staff         20 Aug 17 18:39 udunits.tar.Z -> 
udunits-1.12.2.tar.Z
    226 Transfer complete.
    953 bytes received in 0.059 seconds (15.83 Kbytes/s)
    ^D
    $

Try again.  If you have problems, then contact your system administrator.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson