[HECnet] VMS FTP server?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-01-08 03:23, Sampsa Laine wrote:

On 8 Jan 2015, at 04:03, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

Aha. Interesting output. That was sortof what I had a vague memory remembering it looking like. Now I need to decide if I want to do it similar.
Do people think file protection (for example) is useful to see? What about owner? I certainly have the information available, but I have not displayed it so far.

I would try to make it look as close to the *nix implementations, that way automated / GUI front-ends are more likely to work nicely with the server.

That is probably going to fail in various ways anyway, so it's not high on my list of priorities.
RSX (and VMS) file protection codes does not map well to Unix. And owner information is a even bigger headache in RSX, as you normally never do translate the UIC to something else. And presenting a UIC will already make it look very non-Unix. :-)

For example, I have a very nice GUI file transfer program called Transmit.app on OS X, but it REALLY gets confused when talking to VMS..

People try to be too clever. :-)

	Johnny

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