Re: publicfile peculilarities, ftpd trouble

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> writes:
> Gary <[email protected]> wrote:

>> to move up a dir, I found cdup will move you up.  I don't have an
>> answer why cd .. will not work.

> I think it's because "cd .." isn't defined in the FTP spec as the way to
> move up the tree; "cdup" is.  Servers which happen to work with "cd .." 
> used to be very rare (at least they were in '86-90 when I did a lot of
> FTP), although that doesn't seem to be the case now.

Any decent ftp client should convert cd .. to cdup for you.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>