libfetch ftp patch for less latency
Thomas David Rivers
rivers at dignus.com
Thu Mar 29 18:36:18 UTC 2007
The mainframe (z/OS) FTP server does not allow multiple
"directories" in CWD command.
This is due to the mapping of "directories" to flat file names
in the z/OS dataset-name convention.
So - while I can say:
ftp> cd RIVERS
ftp> cd TEST
ftp> cd OBJ
which results in the current working "directory" being
RIVERS.TEST.OBJ. I cannot say
ftp> cd RIVERS/TEST/OBJ
But, I _could_ say:
ftp> cd RIVERS.TEST.OBJ
So - on "different" systems where the idea of "directory" has to
be mapped onto a foreign filesystem, you can get interesting
results.
This may or may-not matter... I was just citing an example.
- Dave Rivers -
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