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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: remote directory and such
Message-Id: <1995Oct13.082825.63619@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 95 08:28:25 MDT
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In article <45k2jv$8f1@ftcnews.nrcs.usda.gov>, ute@feinde2.ftc.nrcs.usda.gov (Ute R. Willmore) writes:
> I posted a few weeks ago with some Questions about MS-Kermit and C-Kermit
> and our server went down right after I posted. I don't know if anybody
> replied, since I never saw any replies. Thanks to all who replied anyway.
> I just wanted you to know I am not the ungrateful kind, who takes answers
> and never says thanks, I just never got a chance to see the answers.
>
> Anyway, on to my new questions.
>
> Here is what I am doing:
>
> I have a DOS box that is hoooked to a UNIX 4.2 box via a serial cable. I use
> MS-Kermit to log on the UNIX system and then use C-kermit to put the DOS
> box into server mode. This allows me to do a number of things, first and
> for most, it allows me to get a directory listing from the DOS side. I need
> that directory listing on the UNIX side.
>
> Problems is that I can only get listings of the current directory and its
> sub-directory, but not of any other directories. So, if c:\mskermit is
> the current directory on the DOS machine, a remote dir command will give
> me a listing of c:\mskermit. Remote dir subdir1 will list the files in
> c:\mskermit\subdir1. But, remote dir c:\subdir will also give a listing of
> c:\mskermit.
>
> Any ideas? Am I missing something very basic here, or is the a bug in Kermit
> 3.13 I don't know about?
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As I recall, that's a bug in MSK v3.13 having to do with ensuring
a "\" path separator is always present. Alas, it could be inserted twice
and confuse DOS. The industry standard advice applies here "Please upgrade
to the latest version."
Joe D.