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Re: MVS FTP interface (Was: Re: LYNX-DEV Two bugs in Lynx)
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Foteos Macrides |
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Re: MVS FTP interface (Was: Re: LYNX-DEV Two bugs in Lynx) |
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Thu, 20 Feb 1997 13:28:49 -0500 (EST) |
"Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)" <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:
>> >> >BTW, does anyone know an MVS anonymous FTP server I can test on?
>> >> ftp://epaibm.rtpnc.epa.gov/
>> For what it's worth (not much, I must admit 8-), I used that as
>> a test server to try to add MVS support when we were working on the
>> CMS/VM support. It appears to have everything the ftp gateway must
>> deal with, somehow or other, for MVS. I didn't succeed, and left
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>> MVS as "generic" to ensure a clean failure.
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>I've just run a trace to the above address, and it appears one
>problem is the use of slashes.
>
> Tx: PWD
> Rx: 257 "'PUBLIC.'" is working directory.
> Tx: RETR /
> Rx: 501 Invalid data set name "/". Use MVS Dsname conventions.
> Tx: CWD /
> Rx: 501 A qualifier in "/" begins with an invalid character
>
>MVS has no concept of subdirectories (as we know them), and the
>only "CWD" command that would apply would be to set the prefix.
>However, I'm more familiar with the FTP client on that machine
>than the server.
You've shown a trace which confirms that, in the absence of
adequately successful support for MVS ftp servers, setting it to
"generic" will ensure a clean failure.
Fote
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