Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!bsrdp From: bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: garbo Keywords: nethack,virus Message-ID: Date: 25 May 91 20:56:19 GMT Sender: Hylton Boothroyd Organization: Warwick Business School Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: clover In article <1991May23.103500.8209@uwasa.fi> hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama) writes: > And I know that although you don't get dir listing you can retrieve > files if you know where they are and what are they called. There is one possibility in between. During a recent FTP connection I found that although I often could not get a response to dir from the subdirectories of /pc, I *could* nearly always get a response to nlist . However, although nlist displays a list of files, it does not give any other information about them. In particular, no file sizes. Even so, there was something odd about the connection. Some commands were followed almost instantaneously with the (unbelievable) assertion that more than 100000 empty lines had been transferred! However, that was a few days ago and I cannot now remember exactly what I was doing. In any case, there are so many layers between my desk and garbo, that I hardly dare venture guesses about where the assertion originated. Hylton -- Hylton Boothroyd h.boothroyd@cu.warwick.uk.ac Warwick Business School Janet: h.boothroyd@uk.ac.warwick.cu University of Warwick Darpa: h.boothroyd%cu.warwick.ac.uk@relay-nsfnet.ac.uk COVENTRY, CV4 7AL Uucp: h.boothroyd@warwick.uucp