[Info-vax] VMS^.FTP^.mput^.to.linux

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In article <6e26a32e-cf6a-454d-b416-b8f064e800b5 at t13g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes:
>   And, of course, I was thinking "mget" while you were
>asking about "mput".  The TCPIP FTP client apparently suffers
>its own lameness, similar to that of the server.  Other than
>writing a DCL procedure which eats the carets and uses COPY
>/FTP (with an explicit destination name) on the results, I
>don't have a good method for that direction.

Yes, it looks like that might be the only solution.  I was hoping for a
hidden logical for changing this behaviour but, after DUMPing and a scan
through the dump of the FTP client's executable, I didn't find anything
that looked promising.

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