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From: dswt@stl.stc.co.uk (D.S.W.Tansley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Telnet INTO a Mac ?
Summary: Codswallop!
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Date: 28 Mar 91 10:11:52 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.011826.18836@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <18365@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Mar14.060604.19964@PacBell.COM> <1991Mar15.141509.1224@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <1991Mar15.200621.15994@bwdls61.bnr.ca> <AKU.91Mar25224735@vipunen.hut.fi>
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In the referenced article aku@vipunen.hut.fi (Jaakko Siuko) writes:
>In article <1991Mar15.200621.15994@bwdls61.bnr.ca> bschmidt@bnr.ca (Ben Schmidt (BNR)) writes:
>>   Richard, in your particular case, you can take advantage of the fact
>>   that the files which you want to make network accessible via ftp, are
>>   on a separate volume:  While you can certainly "cd .." to a parent
>>   directory on your Mac *within* the current volume, you can't "cd" to a
>>   separate volume on your Mac, through NCSA Telnet's FTP server, without
>>   first knowing the name of the volume to which you want to switch.
>>
>>   Ben Schmidt       Information Technology,   Bell-Northern Research
>
>You can switch volumes without knowing the names in NCSA Telnet!  Just
>"cd /" in your the Mac you are connected by ftp, and you will be at
>the "desktop" or root of your Mac.  Doing a "dir" at this level will
>show you the names of different volumes.
>
>Jaakko Siuko	Helsinki University of Technology	Jaakko_Siuko@hut.fi

Sorry Jaakko, that's codswallop! (I gotta support one of my (new) BNR 
colleagues!)

You definitely *can't* cd to other mounted volumes, at least using Telnet
2.3. I have just tried to do it. cd / just puts you at the root of the
boot disk; cd .. there does nothing either; cd <volume name> also does
nothing. 

What version are you using? Have you actually tried to do it, or was this one 
of those dreaded 'well this should work' ideas? :-)

Be interested to know if you really *have* managed to do it...

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