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Amiga ftp quirks?

    13-Jun-94 15:35:05
Sb: Amiga ftp quirks?
Fm: Syndesis 76004,1763
To: All
I'm seeing some quirks with the AS225 (beta 2) 'ftp'. I'm trying to use a Mac tool called "Fetch", a GUI-based 'ftp'. It can't 'cd' into any Amiga directories or fetch any Amiga files, because its list of files are prepended with a '/'. Fetch's author says that Fetch doesn't prepend anything. A little digging showed this, as I talked to Amiga 'ftp': dir 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for inet:c/ls -lkc. 226 Transfer complete (243 bytes) d— 0 Jun 13 11:39 Clipboards d— 0 Jun 13 11:39 ENV —- 206 Jun 13 12:38 Lfoo d— 0 Jun 13 11:39 T d— 0 Jun 13 11:39 c —- 29271 Jun 13 12:45 foo 6 files found, total size: 29477 bytes. ls 200 PORT command successful. /foo /Lfoo /c /ENV /Clipboards /T 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list. 226 Transfer complete quote nlst ram: 200 PORT command successful. ram:/foo ram:/Lfoo ram:/c ram:/ENV ram:/Clipboards ram:/T 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list. 226 Transfer complete Why does the Amiga ftp tell the host that RAM:/Clipboards is a valid path? When Fetch sends 'cwd RAM:/Clipboards', it fails. Also, when I invoke 'inet:c/ls ram: >ram:foo', it spits out a one-column list of files, but I've swapped it with some other 'ls' than the one shipped with AS225. The original 'ls' spits out a list of files on a single line, with trailing slashes on the directories. My 'ls' doesn't add slashes.