Re: publicfile peculilarities, ftpd trouble

On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 09:26:30AM -0600 or thereabouts, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> 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.

Makes sense... Come to think of it, I was FTPing a lot around then also...
if I recall that was the "in thing" then... good memory...  

Seems like the only thing constant is change.
 

-- 
Best regards,
Gary

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        /^...[discover].$/d
       /^..[real].[code]$/!d
    ' /usr/share/dict/words