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From: boyd.roberts@ca-...
Subject: Réf. : Re: Réf._:_[9fans]_problems
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:18:43 +0200




i made a deliberate decision when i wrote ftpnfs (ie. ftpfs glued onto
NFS.  it was not pretty, but it did work.  re-writing the kernel XDR was
ghastly)
to use the minimal number of ftp commands possible, in this
way it would interoperate with more systems without code changes.

with each new system the code has to be changed if you use SYST.
i didn't use SYST.

to determine if something was a directory i'd cd into it and if that
succeeded it was a directory.  if it didn't it was a file or directory you
couldn't access (these i presented as files), so you didn't really care