Re: negative number from FTP

[David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/28/05, Justin C. Sherrill <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm backing up one of my machines (DragonFly 1.2) to another (DragonFly
> 1.4) before upgrading.  I used FTP from the 1.4 machine to the 1.2 machine
> to bring over a 3.3G tarball, and at the end of the download, it printed
> this:
>
> 226 Transfer complete.
> -960809325 bytes received in 30:36 (1.73 MB/s)
>
> It appears the ftp program appears to not be using a big enough variable
> to track size.  I don't know if this is inherited from FreeBSD's ftp, as I
> don't have a FreeBSD system with which to test.

I think DFly fetch has the same problem.

-DR