Hi, On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Michael B. Brutman <mbbrut...@brutman.com> wrote: > > The current DOS path handling in the FTP server is kind of broken - it > works for some clients, but not for others. Ironically, the smarter the > FTP client the less likely it is to work. > ... > There is no winning unless I start putting some non-standard mode > selection commands in. > > The universal solution is to make everything look like a Unix > filesystem. To handle drive letters I'm thinking of using something like > /drive_x/ as the first part of the path. For example, if your current > working directory is "/" then you are at the "root" with no logged > drive. All you can do is see a list of available drives with each being > shown in /drive_x/ format. If you wanted to traverse the C: drive you > would go to "/drive_c/" and work from there.
Why not imitate DJGPP instead? It's probably more familiar to people, e.g. "/dev/c/" or "/dev/d/" or whatever. Or use both (or not, whatever). ;-) > This is kind of a big change so I'd like to see if anybody can spot any > flaws in it ahead of time. I trust your decision, whatever it is. :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user