Re: EFS 1.6 bug: another ftp server on CMS
sandy@ibm550.sissa.it
Wed, 9 Mar 1994 19:18:33 +0100
Joerg-Martin,
On Mon, 7 Mar 1994 you wrote:
> At my University's Computing centre there is a CMS machine
> running a different ftp server softeware than the one that
> efs apparently expects.
> I had a phone call with the person in charge of this machine, and was told that
> the Software is from the vendor Spartacus, the Product name is KNET/VM.
> "KNET/VM FTP Server Release 3.2.0"
> Efs failed to recognize the server and operating system.
> A patch should be easy, as both strings "KNET" and "CMS" occur
> in the server replies.
True that the patch to get efs to recognize it would be easy, but that
wouldn't help much. efs needs to work with it. It needs to be able
to parse listings, etc. For starters, the server does not seem to
support PWD for obtaining the current minidisk. efs needs to know the
current minidisk. Probably something could be done for this server,
if somebody wanted the support. But, they would need to work with me
a bit, testing parsers, and sending me DIR listings. If someone wants
support for this server badly enough to do this, I'll write the
support. Otherwise, we'll just leave it. Anyway, thanks for pointing
out yet another rogue server ;-)
--sandy