Neither LCD nor LPWD is part of RFC 959. In an ideal world the MVS-OE developers would have looked at what Eunix programmers in the wild actually used and not just what was needed to get certification, but that has not always been what they did.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 1:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SFTP and z/OS Migration On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:07:54 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: > ... >WinSCP has unique problems: it starts one SFTP connection for directory >displays, and one or more for file transfers. This is a little silly >since you can do multiple things at a time on one connection. This means >that you can't change a /+ setting in the GUI and have it apply to file >transfers. > This is reminiscent of an oddity in MVS plain old linemode ftp. Like: cd /here ftp localhost LPWD /here LCD /there LPWD /there ! pwd /here ... apparently the MVS FTP client process does not issue a chdir(); as I'm accustomed to on other systems. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
