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Re: No subdirectories in ftp directory listings

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 01:39:01 +0200 (MET DST)

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Patrick Smith wrote:

> Actually, it's not at all clear to me. NLST is supposed to "return a
> stream of names of files and no other information". Given that LIST is
> described as returning "a list of files in the specified directory", it's
> not clear to me that the word "file" is meant to exclude links and
> subdirectories. Note that mget is mentioned only as an example of how NLST
> might be used.

That is indeed correct. When taken into account what the LIST command is
described to do... Oh well.

> I've attached a suggestion for wording in the man pages, trying to avoid
> characterizing this behaviour as right or wrong.

Thanks! Applied and committed!

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Received on 2002-05-08