Re: incorrect (?) links showing at ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/current/

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "balducci" <address@hidden>
| To: "Thomas Dickey" <address@hidden>
| Sent: Monday, March 18, 2019 3:48:04 AM
| Subject: incorrect (?) links showing at 
ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/current/

| hello
| 
| I've noticed that the unversioned tarballs on
| ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/current/
| point to apparently broken targets:
| 
| ncurses.tar.gz -> /ncurses.tar.gz/ncurses-6.1-20190317.tgz
| tack.tar.gz -> /tack.tar.gz/tack-1.08-20170818.tgz
| termcap.src.gz -> /termcap.src.gz/termcap-20190112.src.gz
| terminfo.src.gz -> /terminfo.src.gz/terminfo-20190112.src.gz
| 
| Actually, if I try to download with wget, I get an error:
| 
|    ----8<----
|    #:321> wget -O ncurses.tar.gz
|    ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/current/ncurses.tar.gz
|    --2019-03-18 08:44:28--
|    ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/current/ncurses.tar.gz
|               => 'ncurses.tar.gz'
|    Resolving ftp.invisible-island.net (ftp.invisible-island.net)... 
216.194.196.78
|    Connecting to ftp.invisible-island.net
|    (ftp.invisible-island.net)|216.194.196.78|:21... connected.
|    Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
|    ==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
|    ==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD (1) /ncurses/current ... done.
|    ==> SIZE ncurses.tar.gz ... done.
| 
|    ==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR ncurses.tar.gz ...
|    No such file 'ncurses.tar.gz'.
|    ---->8----
| 
| Just wanting to be sure that it's not a problem on my side

no - it's some new problem with either the ISP, or their firewall.
For several years (March 2013) there's been an intermediate directory level 
"pub"
(to work around their changes) making that

ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/current/

become

ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/pub/ncurses/current/

Something is now disallowing the links.
I'll check with the ISP to see how to fix it.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net