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

[Ken Fairfield]

On Aug 7, 2:39 pm, moro... at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
wrote:
> Ken Fairfield <ken.fairfi... at gmail.com> writes:
[...]
>
> >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 ?

Don't forget the context: this is a plugin for Firefox on
Windows.  FTP from a DOS window works just fine.

FireFTP opens two "panes" listing files.  The one opened
for the remote VMS FTP server doesn't list any files
because it wrongly inserts a leading slash.  I tried
typing "SYS$LOGIN:" in place of the disk:[dir] which
is my login directory, but it insisted on rewriting that
as "/SYS$LOGIN:" and pops an error window.

I dropped a note to the author, fwiw...mostly
because I'm a Firefox user (stay as far from IE
as possible) and the plugin would be somewhat
more convenient than the DOS window.

   -Ken