Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!icarus!kaul From: kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rich Kaul) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: ymir.claremont.edu sucks! Message-ID: Date: 31 Jan 91 17:42:42 GMT References: <29734@usc> Sender: kaul@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rich Kaul) Organization: Ohio State University Electrical Engineering Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu's message of 30 Jan 91 23:47:20 GMT In article <29734@usc> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes: Imagine: you can cd into a directory but not cd .. out of it!! Read the man page for a recent version of ftp or go and read the RFC directly. The only officially approved way of changing to the parent of a directory is cdup. ftp is designed to be relatively independent of OS. You're reading Un*x-isms into all other operating systems, which isn't the brightest thing you can do. Administrators of ymir.claremont.edu: if you're listening: consider moving your machine to Unix! Only 9 years left to catch up with the twentieth century; you can still dump OS/2!! It's a VMS machine. It's their machine, which they are graciously providing for your use. You can't complain about a service you're getting for free when you're not even using it properly. I appreciate the service they provide and think your attitude could use some adjusting. (It used to be "All the world's a VAX." Is the prevailing attitude these days "All the world's a Unix Box"?) -- Rich Kaul | Every man is given the key to the door kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu | of heaven; unfortunately, the same key or ...!osu-cis!kaul | opens the door to hell.