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

[Arne Vajhøj]

Bart Zorn wrote:
> 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.

Many FTP clients are hopeless broken for non-Unix syntax.

But there is a workaround: use a FTP server that supports
Unix syntax.

Arne