Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch mirroring to Microsoft FTP Service

[Andy Tai]

OK, by essentially requesting first the remote system type and then if we have a Windows machine treating it the same way as wu-ftp, and testing on an actual Windows FTP server, the Microsoft FTP support actually seems to work.  

This relies on the Windows machine replying to a SYST command with the string "Windows_NT".  This is, of course, no guarantee a reliable way of detecting Windows.  But for now it is the best we can do.

I did some simple import, get, commit, branch operations and all seemed to work.
Available with the latest snapshot

http://www.atai.org/gnuarch/snapshots/tla-1.3.4-20060618.tar.gz

People with interests in Windows FTP support, please let me know if it works for you or not...

On 6/12/06, Thomas Lord < address@hidden> wrote:

wu-ftp (evidently from your report -- and as I vaguely recall
from when the code was written) requires the non-standard
(perhaps non-conforming, I'd have to check) "-a" argument
to NLST to include dot files in the output.   Alright, so Arch
treats that as a de facto separate FTP-like protocol.

A similar solution would enable Arch to work with MSFT
FTP assuming they hold their servers reasonable stable
in the relevant behaviors.

(The FTP RFC -- I forget the number -- is good reading, btw.)

-t

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Andy Tai, address@hidden