Re: ftp bug

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From: Greg Watson
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 07:14

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In article peter@solb1.essex.ac.uk (Allott P R) writes:

>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*

I agree that it is a strange thing to want to do - I think that it was originally
a typo on my part. However, ftp shouldn't core dump either...

It now appears that this bug is restricted to the SunOS version of ftp (and also
possibly to early BSD versions). Sun have recorded it as a bug with id 1098970 if
you want to get a copy of the fix.

Greg

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