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

[Ken Fairfield]

On Aug 7, 12:43 pm, Bart Zorn <Bart.Z... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 7, 5:58 pm, Ken Fairfield <ken.fairfi... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 7, 4:10 am, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > [...]
>
> > > Don't forget FireFTP which is the free plugin for Firefox. The GUI
> > > looks like WS-FTP from Ipswitch
>
> > Does FireFTP (say version 1.04) work against a VMS host?
> > The support page says it doesn't...but I haven't tried yet....
>
> >     -Ken
>
> Well, I am not sure, but the first problem is that FireFTP insists to
> prefix the VMS directory specification with a "/". Of course, that is
> not very much appreciated by the VMS ftp server. I am using TCPware at
> this moment; maybe one of the others is more tolerant.

OK, yep, I just tried and found the same thing on:

HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.4 - ECO 7
on a hp AlphaServer GS1280 7/1300 running OpenVMS V7.3-2

Very annoying in that you can try to remove the "/" and it just
insists on sticking it back in when you press return.

I suppose I could RTFM and find the logical that allows unix-style
paths under TCP/IP Services, eh?

In the mean time I think I'll drop a note to the author and ask why
he's forcing a path style (on the Windows side, he certainly allows,
e.g., "C:" and doesn't force "/C:")...

    Thanks, Ken