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- From: frank@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov (Frank O'Donnell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: FTPSERV idiosyncrasies
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:44:42 GMT
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Lines: 36
- Message-ID: <frank.21.727645482@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: frankpc.jpl.nasa.gov
-
- We are running a Netware 3.11 server with Netware NFS v 1.2
- loaded to support anonymous ftp. Our purpose in doing this
- is to operate a public access site for distribution of public
- affairs materials from JPL's space missions (it's at
- pubinfo.jpl.nasa.gov (128.149.6.2), if anyone is interested).
-
- In the 24 hours since the site was announced, we've had
- more than 500 ftp connections. A couple of users have sent
- me email about specific problems:
-
- -- A couple of people say that some Unix commands don't work.
- If I ftp to the site from a Unix host, I can use either "ls"
- or "dir" to get a directory listing. However, if I try options
- with ls (say, "ls -la"), it doesn't work. A user in Germany
- connecting from a Unix host said he couldn't get ls to go
- at all. Finally, another user said he was trying some Unix-
- style features like recursive directories that didn't work.
- Is there any clear documentation anywhere on what commands
- FTPSERV.NLM accepts that I can pass on to these folks?
-
- -- One user wonders if we can do a re-sort on some of the
- directories so that the index files are easier to spot. I
- have a utility called nds.exe which supposedly does a
- directory sort on a network directory, but I notice that
- sometimes the changes don't seem to take. In the past I've
- been led to believe that this has to do with the Novell OS's
- dynamic directory space allocation or something along those
- lines, and that there "isn't" a way a directory can be
- re-sorted and changes written. Is this the case? Is there
- any hope of having a capability in the future (i.e. perhaps
- Netware 4.0)?
-
- Thanks for any comments.
-
- Frank
- frank@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov
-