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

[Michael Moroney]

Ken Fairfield <ken.fairfield at gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.

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

...

>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:")...

What happens if you define a logical C that's visible from the FTP
server process as a directory ($ define C disk:[dir]) and try to ftp a 
file C:FOOBAR.TXT ?