[Info-vax] FTP sesion against a vms server fails

[Bob Koehler]

In article <00A8F9EE.C8D22D37 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> In article <h5dlee$8o6$1 at pcls4.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) writes:
>>I have also noticed some FTP funniness with VMS (V8.3 Alpha).  On my LAN
>>(all systems 100BT), FTP from one PC running XP works, but is very slow.  
>>From another PC running XP, it runs at normal speed.  In each case the FTP
>>client is the basic simple Windows client (DOS window->ftp).  Since I
>>rarely FTP from the "slow" system, I haven't investigated further.
> 
> I've never seen any issues FTPing to and from OpenVMS -- all three stacks
> and several different FTP servers.  So, it must be that crappy commerial-
> ly available virus known as WEENDOZE -- not VMS -- that is the problem.
> 
> What does sftp do?  Or, isn't that possible on WEENDOZE?

   I haven't looked at it in many years, but back in DOS 6/Windows 3
   days I did some testing between VMS (UCX), Solaris, and DOS.

   It was always the PC that had a tiny MRU and longer transfer times.

   Since FTP isn't an MS network application and doesn't run over MS
   network protocols, there's a very good chance MS doesn't care.  It's
   kind of like tring to get them to supply a working copy of Hyperterm.