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Re: ftp bug

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From: Allott P R
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 12:21
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In article <1992Aug7.044428.9482@griffin.itc.gu.edu.au> greg@itc.gu.edu.au writes:
>I have recently logged a call with Sun regarding a bug 
>	% mkdir xxx
>	% cd xxx
>	% touch a b
>	% ftp anyhost
>	<enter any username and password>
>	230 User foo logged in.
>	ftp> ls snurf *
>	Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>	%
This seem an odd thing to want to do.  The * is taken as the local name for the
file in which to write the directory. I guess you ment to type snurf*

On our Solbourne 5e/905 running their version of 'SUN-OS 4.1.1' the program
runs and writes the listing to the first file that matches.
solb1-43-% ftp sersun1
Connected to sersun1.
220 sersun1 FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.
Name (sersun1:peter):
331 Password required for peter.
Password:
230 User peter logged in.
ftp> ls dssda *
200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (155.245.10.133,2856) (0 bytes).
226 ASCII Transfer complete.
local: a remote: dssda
17 bytes received in 0.01 seconds (1.7 Kbytes/s)
ftp> cat a
?Invalid command
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.
solb1-44-% cat a
dssda not found
solb1-45-%
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From: peter@solb1.essex.ac.uk (Allott P R)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: ftp bug
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Date: 10 Aug 92 12:21:29 GMT
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