On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Jacob Laursen wrote:
> On 21-Apr-00, Fred Wright wrote:
>
> >>> AmiFTPd is worth the registration fee. It works very well.
>
> >> But doesn't support normal FTP commands like:
> >>
> >> MPUT/MSEND
> >> MGET
> >> MDELETE
> >> CHMOD
>
> > You have a strange definition of "normal". There are no such commands in
> > the FTP standard, nor do typical servers implement them. Implementing
> > mput on the server side seems especially strange, anyway.
>
> Bummer - yes, of course. But MGET is hard to live without when using with
> command line clients. My definition of "normal" here is "as supported by
> most servers". What's yours?
Huh? Mget, mput, and mdelete are all normally implemented in the
*client*, and require no special server support at all (except that mget
and mdelete require NLST).
The "normal" way that these commands work is:
Mput - client does local wildcarding and iterates on STOR commands to the
server.
Mget - client issues NLST to server with specified wildcards; server
interprets wildcards and delivers list of filenames; client iterates on
RETR commands.
Mdelete - like Mget except uses DELE instead of RETR.
Fred Wright
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