Ftp-WG: Re: UTF-8 pathnames: pathname nature & length

"Gregory A Lundberg" <[email protected]> Tue, 21 May 2002 10:58:21 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ftpext
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> >       Servers are under no
> >       obligation to provide for editing of command lines and may require
> >       that it be done in the user host.
>
> To ensure inter-operation, we must assume that for every option there
exists
> at least one implementation which depends upon it.

<silly>
By definition ALL server implementations implement some form of command-line
editing because they MUST implement the function "accept this line and begin
another", which is the most basic form of command-line editing.
</silly>