Re: publicfile peculilarities, ftpd trouble

gary <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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...  

Thanks :).  I used to spend hours browsing the contents of sites listed in
this file of anonymous FTP servers all over the world, compiled by
a guy with an address like <[email protected]> or something -- /everyone/ had a
copy of this list that he published monthly.

To the poster that bitched that Dan didn't support "cd .."; the reason it's
not in the FTP spec is, of course, that "cd .." only has that meaning on Unix
systems and systems that copied it from Unix.  FTP was already in broad use
with many other platforms where "cd .." is not meaningful.

Charles
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