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From: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: BUG (?) in 'ftpd' for 'mget' handling ??
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Date: 22 Dec 90 07:55:02 GMT
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I am having problems with the behavior of NeXT ftpd for
'mget' command.  It's in release 1.0a, and in 2.0Fuchsia.

The problem is that "mget *" from a client seems to
return a  file list which contains entries such as:

subdir_name/filename
subdir_name/filename2
 ....

In other words, it doesn't expand into a list of files
in the current working directory, but expands into
files ONE LEVEL into subdirectories in the current working
directory.

I have tested this  in 4.3BSD, and SunOS 4.0.3, 4.1.  The
problem happens only for NeXT's ftpd.

The funny thing is that this expansion only goes down one
level into a subdirectory, but not more than one level.

Is this a known  problem or a FEATURE?
What should I do to fixed this?
Is this fixed in the real 2.0 release?  (Someone with 2.0 please
test this?).

I would appreciate any leads.  Thanks.

Izumi Ohzawa, izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu