Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:05:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: des@des.no, nate@root.org, rpaulo@fnop.net Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libfetch ftp patch for less latency Message-ID: <200703291805.l2TI5Vt63613@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <460BFD1D.9000402@fnop.net>
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The mainframe (z/OS) FTP server does not allow multiple "directories" in CWD command. This is due to the mapping of "directories" to flat file names in the z/OS dataset-name convention. So - while I can say: ftp> cd RIVERS ftp> cd TEST ftp> cd OBJ which results in the current working "directory" being RIVERS.TEST.OBJ. I cannot say ftp> cd RIVERS/TEST/OBJ But, I _could_ say: ftp> cd RIVERS.TEST.OBJ So - on "different" systems where the idea of "directory" has to be mapped onto a foreign filesystem, you can get interesting results. This may or may-not matter... I was just citing an example. - Dave Rivers - -- rivers@dignus.com Work: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com
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