Re: Report on package efs 1.5
sandy@ibm550.sissa.it
Wed, 9 Mar 1994 20:21:18 +0100
Edward,
On Tue, 8 Mar 94 you wrote:
> I was trying to delete files. I tried three times. Each time I would
> get a message like "deleting <FILE>" and it would hang. C-g broke out
> and let me kill the process (I really like that behavior of C-g
> BTW!!!)
Thanks. So do I;-)
>ftp> delete DISK$LANAI2:[AASE]RRWND01MAR.T12Z;1
> 200 "DISK$LANAI2:[AASE]RRWND01MAR.T12Z;1" removed
That right there is the problem. In RFC959, 200 is _not_ a valid
return code for DELETE. Successful deletion must be indicated by a
250. 200 isn't even in the list of allowed return codes for DELETE.
Your first step should be to send a bug report to the author of the
FTP server. If you really need efs to work with this machine, I can
send you a hack for efs-ftp-startup-function-alist, to make it work
for this server. I'm not going to make changes to efs though, as they
could cause bugs for hosts which do correctly follow the FTP RFC's.
--sandy