Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!news From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: HINFO && rfc1010 && rfc1033 Message-ID: <269FEE61.47D@intercon.com> Date: 15 Jul 90 04:17:36 GMT References: <1990Jul13.044651.10354@ctr.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@intercon.com (USENET The Magnificent) Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Herndon, VA Lines: 13 In article , gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace) writes: > The Symbolics network code uses those fields to figure out things like > what the remote system's filename syntax is. It's a shame more people > don't fill them in. We do the same thing in our Macintosh FTP client, so that we can parse long-format directory listings from servers that don't support the SYST command. -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation