[Gllug] ftp listing

[rich at annexia.org]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:05:00PM +0000, t.clarke wrote:
> I do not believe anything more sophisticated than 'ls' is supported under FTP

FTP supports several commands (at least 4) which are
equivalent to 'ls'.

> In any event any enhanced ability needs to exist in both the server and the
> client, I believe,  as the client needs to 'tell' the server what it wants to
> do and the server has to be capable of doing it.

Generally in FTP the server "tells" the client what it supports
though the FEAT command.

Rich.

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