22 Apr
2010
22 Apr
'10
5:38 a.m.
I would stick with the command line FTP client. Many
of the GUI FTP clients
for windows assume a unix or windows filesystem on the server and
completely fail to cope with the syntax of VMS filenames. Even the ones
that claim to understand VMS can still run into difficulties. I think part
of the problem is that the RFC describing FTP says that filenames should
be in the servers format rather than in a platform independant format and
the GUI FTP client producers tend to do what they think should work rather
than follow the RFCs to the letter.
The same problem exists when connecting to Alpha Micro servers. AlphaTCP's
FTP daemon exposes the usual project,programmer numbers (and ersatzes) which
many graphical FTP clients choke on.
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