The Case of the Unknown Host

[propaine]

Thank you for the suggestion.  The only thing that did any good in the end
was typing

ftp www.speakupmodified.org

when in the command prompt.  Yes, I do mean www, not ftp.  (Maybe that's not
strange, but I thought it was.) From there, I did get myself to the correct
directory.

How can I determine which files to download with the mget command?  (Is
there a document containing this information?) I rechecked the installation
howto I got by way of

www.linux-speakup.org

which applies to installing FC3.  The contents of the 3 directory is very
different from that in the 5/RPMS directory, though.

Related, do I need to use different or fewer of these RPMS to do an upgrade
from FC2 rather than a full install?

Thanks to anybody who can help.

Propaine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Wagner" <wagner.andrew at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: The Case of the Unknown Host


> I put ftp://speakupmodified.org into my browser and navigated using
> the link you posted to tell me what directories to try. It looks like
> current is just a shortcut to 5, so try pasting this into your
> browser:
> ftp://speakupmodified.org/fedora/speakupmodified/5/RPMS/
>
> On 5/26/06, propaine <propaine at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Greetings!
> >
> > In the hope of downloading the Speakup-modified FC5 images, I've just
tried several times to ftp to
> >
> > ftp://ftp.SpeakupModified.Org/fedora/speakupmodified/current/RPMS/
> >
> > I just got this link via a Google search.  When I followed it as a link
from the message my search had landed on, I saw a user name of anonymous,
but I found no place to put a password and seemed unable to do anything but
click on Internet Explorer's most unhelpful help.
> >
> > When I try using ftp from the command prompt, I get "unknown host."  I
typed using all lowercase, and again with exactly the capitalization as
above.  I even tried eliminating everything after the .Org.  I think I tried
both with and without the slash at the end.
> >
> > I did that Google search a few minutes ago because I had the same
problem with
> >
> > ftp://SpeakupModified.org/fedora/speakupmodified/current/RPMS/
> >
> > even using the Linux machine I had in my classroom this morning.  I drew
hope from the small difference in the link I got this afternoon, but it
seems there's something wrong other than the ftp address.
> >
> > I looked at a chapter on ftp in an old Harley Hahn book on using the
Internet, and it seems to me that I have the syntax right.  I know I must be
missing something, though.  Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Propaine
> >
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