Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 08:20:16 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Stuart Henderson <stuart@helan.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_C=2E_Sm=F8rgrav_?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, Timothy J Luoma <public+FreeBSD@fdt.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X desktop contest? + Desktop Env Message-ID: <199811121620.IAA11256@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Nov 1998 10:01:28 GMT." <19981112100128.A17227@helan.org>
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> On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 09:59:16AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > Ftp can't tell whether what it's just completed is a directory or not > > without chdir'ing into it. That might well be unacceptably slow. > > Surely that depends on the output format of the ftpd at the other side? Given that the format is undefined, the only way to tell for sure whether something is a directory is to chdir into it. You can be lame and try to parse the output format, but that's just asking for someone to complain that you don't parse their favorite server's output right. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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