Re: Clients using a GUI to access FTP

"Steven M. Schweda" wrote:
Why? We were discussing a VMS FTP server. Why should a VMS FTP
server try to overcome any ODS2 file system limitations (other than the
conversion of all-upper-case to all-lower-case)?

While you may be discussing of the output of the LIST or NLIST command,
the above statetement is strictly not true.

When receiving a file, any FTP server must be able to make that file
compatible with its own file system.

So, if on my mac, I want to send "recipe.chocolate.cake" to my VMS
system, I want the VMS FTP server to be able to take that MAC filename
and convert it into a valid VMS file name.

While I understand that ODS5 has many fewer limitations, it still has
some.

(And the mac file system has limitations too, and so does UNIX (can't
have a slash in filename).


(But all this is beyond the current problem of Microsoft asking for a
human readable list of files when it really wants a machine readable list).
.

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