Re: Do we need a DCL debugger?

From: Bob Koehler (koehler_at_eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org)
Date: 09/08/03 

Date: 8 Sep 2003 07:31:52 -0500

In article <1030908013630.3498B-100000@Ives.egh.com>, John Santos <JOHN@egh.com> writes:
>
> Yeah fine, so what? Most graphical FTP interfaces attempt to display
> more than just the file names, and try to allow the user to sort and/or
> filter by names, dates, sizes, etc.
>
> NLST provides *ONLY* names. No other information. So it is inadequate
> for this purpose.
>
> LIST may have been only *MEANT* for display output, but when your
> only tool is a hammer, you pound in lots of screws.

   So, instead of trying to defeat the RFC, wouldn't it be better to
   add a new command to the RFC which provided the information you
   want in a machine-parseable manner? Then everyone could program
   to the RFC and not worry about what machine X version Y did with
   vendor Z's stack.

   IMHO this is long missing from the RFC, but it's hardly the only
   thing missing from TCP/IP networking.

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