Re: [vile] FTP URL acting strange

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 02:18:22PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 02:03:15PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 01:45:10PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > 
> > > actually the person who pointed out the problem to me was trying
> > > to use wget - that didn't work, and nor do any of my browsers.
> > >  
> > > > Should I update the slackbuild with /pub inserted or is this temporary
> > > > situation.
> > > 
> > > Using an explicit "/pub" should work for some time :-)
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
> > > https://invisible-island.net
> > > ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
> > 
> > I'll update the Slackbuild.. thank you Tom.
> 
> no problem (report bugs)

Revisiting this, I experimented and found that changing the form of
the links seems to work around the problem.

Before, I had this (for a long time)

        vile -> pub/vile

but changing it to

        vile -> /pub/vile

seems to work.

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

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