ftp hangs

[Markus Schönhaber]

A A wrote:

> Here is a simple way to reproduce the problem:
> 
> $ ftp -A mirror.rhsmith.umd.edu
> Anonymous login succeeded for cw@cw
> 
> After this the ftp hangs forever.

Windows' ftp.exe shows this behaviour when called from a Cygwin shell
because it lacks knowledge of Cygwin's way of I/O.
Make sure that you use Cygwin's ftp.

What does
which ftp
show?

Regards
  mks

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