Re: publicfile peculilarities, ftpd trouble

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:01:21 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.publicfile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Darren Spruell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > What in the world is the information printed before the directory name?
> > 
> > http://cr.yp.to/ftp/list/eplf.html
> 
> I understand then that the information given in the string is only pertinent to
> clients that understand EPLF from the server. This must rule out most
> command-line clients, such as MS Windows command shells,

Windows is not particularly relevant, is it?  We're on a technical mailing
list here.

> openbsd's ftp, redhat's ftp, etc as they display the (IMHO) human-unreadable
> EPLF format. I suppose a graphical browser will support it;

Mozilla has supported EPLF for a couple of years now in its stock tree.  Some
text-based FTP clients support it.

Charles
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