Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!clarkson!grape.ecs.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin Subject: Re: New version of my ftpd is now available Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 91 14:05:57 GMT References: <3661@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> <1991Jun16.092611.15695@newshost.anu.edu.au> <91Jun17.215218edt.1568@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> Sender: usenet@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: moraes@cs.toronto.edu's message of 18 Jun 91 01:52:34 GMT In article <91Jun17.215218edt.1568@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes: - Columns are a real pain for an automatic listing script -- I have encountered an ftp site that had a columnated ls -R output; useful for humans, not quite so useful for scripts. That would be Phil Karn's KA9Q. It also confuses Andy Norman's ange-ftp package for GNU Emacs. One possibility is for (Unix) sites to run ls -lR | ftpfilter -l | compress > FILES.Z That would be an excellent idea. Maybe someone should write an RFC on archive-site management. That way, a site could say "we're RFCXXXX compliant", and automated tools could deal with it accordingly. -- --russ I'm proud to be a humble Quaker. I am leaving the employ of Clarkson as of June 30. Hopefully this email address will remain. If it doesn't, use nelson@gnu.ai.mit.edu.