[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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.

I have no problem att all with the WRQ Reflection FTP client GUI.
It has no problem displaying file info incl version number, size,
dates and so on. Sub-dirs are clickable in the filellist and the
"up" icon in the tooolbar takes you up in the VMS dir structure.