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- From: peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Peter N Lewis)
- Subject: Re: FTP commands under Fetch - don't work?
- Message-ID: <peter-230792114032@134.7.50.3>
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- Organization: NCRPDA, Curtin University
- References: <1992Jul20.211946.10067@ctr.columbia.edu> <CKD.92Jul20185823@loiosh.eff.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 03:47:40 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <CKD.92Jul20185823@loiosh.eff.org>, ckd@eff.org (Christopher
- Davis) wrote:
-
- > Daniel> Why is it that my host (a SUN run SUN OS 4.1.1) doesn't
- > Daniel> understand simple commands I send to it using the "Send FTP
- > Daniel> command" menu option, in Fetch? For instance, it doesn't
- > Daniel> understand "dir". What I would like to be able to do is to
- > Daniel> search for a file using regexps, to avoid having to see all the
- > Daniel> files in each directory...
-
- > In this case, try LIST glob-pattern, where glob-pattern is a standard
- > shell filename matching pattern (where * means any number of characters
- > and ? means one character), *not* a regexp.
-
- Even that won't work (unless Jim has been really devious) becuase the LIST
- command expects a seperate data path (TCP connection) to be created which
- you can't do. But I can't say I understand why you want to use the Send
- FTP Command menu anyway... Fetch will show you directories in the window,
- double click a directory entry and it will show you that directory, double
- click a file and it will fetch the file. You should never need to use the
- Send FTP Command menu.
-
- You could, if you really feel you must try out every menu, and Send FTP
- Command is next on your list, use it to change directoris by issuing a
- command like:
- CWD /randomly/selecterd/directory
- You can also use it to get at site specific features, sure as:
- MACB ENABLE
- in Telnet's or FTPd's server, as well as other random things that should be
- describe in the docs of the ftp server. The help command:
- HELP
- or
- HELP CWD
- may be useful to you if you like finding out arcane things...
-
- Have fun,
- Peter.
-
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