Re: EFS 1.6 probem with grind.isca.uiowa.edu

sandy@ibm550.sissa.it
Wed, 23 Mar 1994 10:58:51 +0100


Jack,

On Mon, 21 Mar 94 you wrote:

 > I'm mailing this both to the EFS bug team, and to the site admin at
 > UIowa.  It looks to me like there's a quoting problem here: efs wants
 > an "ls -al" of the directory, yet uiowa is attemption an ls of "-al
 > the directory".

efs should automatically recognize this behaviour and respond with a
DIR command.  There was a bug in this code that caused it to fail
for this server.  I've fixed it for 1.8.  1.7 is already in Andy's
hands.

--sandy