[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

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In article <acudnUi9eNBbbS3XnZ2dnUVZ_gGdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article <pdn0b5tbfum015s3pdbdpv99lb1e11aras at 4ax.com>, Judge Judy <nospam at shaw.com> writes:
>>> Most Ftp
>>> clients don't recognize VMS.
>> 
>>    Shouldn't FTP clients be expected to recognise the FTP standard
>>    (formerly know as the RFC)?
>> 
>
>I don't use FTP very often these days.  I don't recall that it is 
>necessary to "recognize" an O/S.  If the FTP implementation conforms, it 
>should work with any other conforming FTP implementation.  VMS to Unix 
>and Unix to VMS using FTP have always worked for me.  Binary files are 
>transferred byte for byte.  Text files are sent as written and line 
>termination is handled at the receiving end by translating to whatever 
>the local custom is.

Right Richard but many of the attempts to make FTP GUI have taken to
parsing the FTP listing format as an *ix listing formats.  Those GUI
FTPs fall to pieces when the FTP server is VMS.  HG-FTP will provide
a *ix listing format for such GUI FTP clients but this shouldn't need
to be.

FWIW, it's sftp for me these days.  I don't even have to set the file
type (ASCII/BINARY) when using sftp which has rendered many FTP down-
loads unusable for me when I forgot to first set the file type.

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