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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: BITFTP / FTP questions
Message-ID: <12349@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Mar 90 23:54:12 GMT
References: <1442@mountn.dec.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1442@mountn.dec.com> shatara@memit.enet.dec.com (Chris Shatara) writes:
>>>> LIST
>drwxrwxrwx 22 uucp     daemon        512 Mar 12 11:25 pub
>Now this directory looks nothing like the directory that Mark Johnson of 
>Apple puts out on the net, an extract of which follows:
>-r    13769 Feb 21 16:59 ./human.interface/notes/hin-006.txt

That's because Mark had set his "current working directory" (analogous
to ProDOS current prefix) to "pub/dts" first.  If you have no way to
issue a "change directory" request to FTP, then simply add the "pub/dts/"
prefix to filenames when you try to get them.

>    GET /human.interface/notes/hin-000.txt
>Is this the proper syntax for specifying the file in question?

No.  If your current working directory had been set to "pub/dts",
you'd need to omit the leading slash, just as with ProDOS names.
Otherwise (as indicated above) you need to add the prefix as in
	GET pub/dts/human.interface/notes/hin-000.txt