Ftp-WG: nlst or mlsd via mget

Pat LaVarre <[email protected]> Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:51:22 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ftpext
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: Jeffrey Altman [mailto:[email protected]] 
> before you come to conclusions
> about mlst please read
> http://www.kermit-project.org/newftp.html
> in particular the section on NLST vs MLSD

Perhaps the "in particular" is:
http://www.kermit-project.org/newftp.html#mget

Interesting, thank you.  I see an argument that MLSD
is unusable for people, in part because it lacks
wildcard support, so to retain the command-line
usability of NLST we need to establish an MGET that
may be NLST or MLSD, depending.

Pat LaVarre

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