[Info-vax] Wildcards using MULTINET FTP server, Linux client?

[Rob Brown]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 at 08:26 -0700, sampsa wrote:

> I'm trying to do a rm *.*;* in an FTP script and get this error:

How does it work if you type the command interactively?

> 550-Failed to delete directory DKA0:[ARCSIGHT]*^.log^;*.dir;

Which tcpip?  Which ftp client on what platform?  Which ftp server? 
What version of VMS on what platform?

What does it look like with a DIR command at the DCL level? 
"mumble.log;mumble.dir" seems like an unusual name, but I suppose it 
could exist given ODS-5 (no experience here) and the appropriate 
parsing setting (again no experience here).

> 550 The file specification must contain a name, type and version
> number (even if wildcarded).

It appears that:
   the name is "*.log;*"
   the type is ".dir"
   the version is ";"

Does this have any resemblance to the actual contents of [ARCSIGHT]? 
What does DCL DIR say?  What does FTP DIR say?

> How do I get rid of those stupid ^'s?

I *think* that the "^" are to escape the ".".

- Rob


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