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

[Bart Zorn]

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:
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> > Don't forget FireFTP which is the free plugin for Firefox. The GUI
> > looks like WS-FTP from Ipswitch
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> Does FireFTP (say version 1.04) work against a VMS host?
> The support page says it doesn't...but I haven't tried yet....
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>     -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.

Bart Zorn