>Netscape uses passive, IIRC, by default.  To get the command line ftp
>to use passive mode, just type passive at the command line.

they do.  but they fall back (forward?) to normal mode if that fails.

<rant>

which it will if you're trying to do anonymous ftp to a solaris box
where the ftpd doesn't have write access to /dev/ticotsord (???!) and
it can't create the server socket.  then, if you're netscaping from a
mac, the fallback with fail because macs can't do getsockname() on a
listen()ing socket.

macs and solaris...a bad combination.

</rant>

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