Most file transfer tasks can be handled with Fetch's regular buttons and menu items. But some file transfer servers implement non-standard commands, or require use of standard commands in non-standard situations. If these cases you can send an arbitrary FTP command with the Send FTP Command menu item. It prompts you for a command and passes it along to the other computer without interpretation. The other computer's response to the command will be presented in a dialog box.
Note that FTP protocol commands often differ from the commands typed to the Unix FTP client. For example, ╥cd╙ is not a valid FTP command but ╥CWD╙ is. Likewise, ╥ls╙ and ╥dir╙ are not valid commands; the proper file listing commands are ╥NLST╙ and ╥LIST╙. FTP commands can be entered in upper or lower case.
If you send the ╥USER╙ command Fetch will automatically prompt you to enter a password. If you send a file listing command (╥NLST╙ or ╥LIST╙) Fetch will put the file list into a new text window.
Examples of commands that may be useful (these are specific to Unix servers):
LIST -lt -- lists files sorted by date
NLST *.hqx -- lists files that end in ╥.hqx╙
SITE UMASK 022 -- sets the file permissions mask to 022
SITE CHMOD 660 file -- sets file╒s permission bits to 660
HELP -- lists the commands supported by this server
If you enter a multi-part command, or one that starts a file-transfer, it will almost certainly not work and you may have to close the connection.
