Ooops/Summary: Behaviour of Sun ftp...

2007-12-25 10:21:00

Please ignore that luser question! I looked at the manpage which spells

out that ftp is meant to have the exact behaviour that was noticed:

i.e., from the ftp manpage:

     ls [ remote-directory | -al ] [ local-file ]

               Print an abbreviated listing of the contents of a

               directory on the remote machine. If remote-

               directory is left unspecified, the current working

               directory is used.

               The -a option lists all entries, including those

               that begin with a dot (.), which are normally not

               listed. The -l option lists files in long format,

               giving mode, number of links, owner, group, size

               in bytes, and time of last modification for each

               file. If the file is a special file, the size

               field instead contains the major and minor device

               numbers rather than a size. If the file is a sym-

               bolic link, the filename is printed followed by

               "->" and the pathname of the referenced file.

               If no local file is specified, or if local-file is

               -, the output is sent to the terminal.

So, what I thought might have been a clobbering bug wasn't one at all...

Cheers

-Preston.

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