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

[Bart Zorn]

On Aug 8, 1:12 am, "John Reagan" <johnrrea... at earthlink.net> wrote:
> "Arne Vajhøj" <a... at vajhoej.dk> wrote in message
>
> news:4a7cb160$0$304$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk...
>
> > 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.
>
> I've been using "Core FTP LE" from my PC to an OpenVMS machine running
> TCP/IP services.  It seems to mostly work.  It gets confused on file size in
> the display and a few other nits.  However, it works most of the time for
> the things I need (mostly transferring files from the OpenVMS machine back
> to my PC).
>
> John

I normally use FileZilla (on my Mac) to connect to OpenVMS systems
just fine. I like the idea of an ftp client inside Firefox, but
FireFTP seems not to be the answer.

Bart