Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!midway!ncar!umigw!mthvax!aem From: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: HyperFTP - why no directories? Message-ID: <1990Jul19.152227.22544@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Date: 19 Jul 90 15:22:27 GMT References: <1990Jul17.231854.3047@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Reply-To: aem@Mthvax.CS.Miami.Edu Distribution: na Organization: U of Miami Dept. of Math. and Computer Science, Coral Gables, FL 33124 Lines: 26 In masinter@parc.xerox.com (Larry Masinter) writes: >Hyperftp-12 seems to have some new code to fix problems with >directories on Vaxen. In general, however, the FTP protocol doesn't >specify enough what the result of the "LIST" command should look like; >for directories, file names, etc. >I'd guess that your 'local site' wasn't a 4.2BSD-based Unix (e.g., >Sun) or a Vax. It appears that the problem is the ftpd that I have on a couple machines locally. It is the dkuug version of the ftpd from bsd 4.3, and there must be some difference in the way it does NLSTs. Hyperftp 1.[12] does list directories when I connect to other Suns, and MicroVaxen, but not the ones with this ftpd. thanks for the followups and mail messages. aem -- a.e.mossberg / aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu / aem@umiami.BITNET / Pahayokee Bioregion Ronald Reagan: As long as there is breath in this body, I will speak and work, strive and struggle, for the cause of the Nicaraguan freedom fighters. Col. Philip Roettinger: Freedom fighters they are not. They are terrorists.