Re: [Gnu-arch-users] cannot upload archive to my ISP

[James Blackwell]

In lists.arch.users, Milan Cvetkovic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to upload one exsample archive to the web space provided by 
> "an ISP", not to name it.
>
> I ran into a problem which I dod not really expect. My ISP does not let 
> me upload files starting with ".".  They use FTP for file upload, and 
> the FTP server is apparently configured to refuse unix hidden files.
>
> TLA archive has a number of hidden files which need to be uploaded. Is 
> there a way around this, short of "change ISP"?

Two quickly come to mind. You could use scp instead of ftp, or you could
upload somewhere else.

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