FTP between Multinet and WINSCP

[Tom Wade]

Has anyone got a product called WINSCP (FTP client for windows) working
with Multinet 5.2 using plain FTP?

From what I can see it doesn't look like it, but I just wanted to check
before I tell the customer it's not compatible, and to look at FileZilla
instead.

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[Richard Whalen]

I have only used WINSCP as an SFTP client with MultiNet (works fine).
I know that the developer was working on a re-write such that it could
do FTP as well, but I haven't tried it recently.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Wade [mailto:***@picard.eurokom.ie]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:32 AM
To: info-***@process.com
Subject: FTP between Multinet and WINSCP


Has anyone got a product called WINSCP (FTP client for windows) working
with Multinet 5.2 using plain FTP?

From what I can see it doesn't look like it, but I just wanted to check

before I tell the customer it's not compatible, and to look at FileZilla

instead.

---------------------------------------------------------
Tom Wade | EMail: tee dot wade at eurokom dot ie
EuroKom | Tel: [phone]
A2, Nutgrove Office Park | Fax: [phone]
Rathfarnham | Disclaimer: This is not a disclaimer
Dublin 14 | Tip: "Friends don't let friends do Unix !"
Ireland

[Richard Whalen]

I installed the latest version and connected via FTP with Wireshark
running.
I see that WinSCP sent "LIST -a" to get a listing of the files in the
directory.
MultiNet FTP interprets this as looking for the file "-a" and finds (and
displays) nothing.
RFC 959 (FTP) says that the argument to LIST is a pathname, not Unix
flags, so MultiNet FTP is right and WinSCP is not compatible as it
expects to be able to pass Unix flags.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Wade [mailto:***@picard.eurokom.ie]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:32 AM
To: info-***@process.com
Subject: FTP between Multinet and WINSCP


Has anyone got a product called WINSCP (FTP client for windows) working
with Multinet 5.2 using plain FTP?

From what I can see it doesn't look like it, but I just wanted to check

before I tell the customer it's not compatible, and to look at FileZilla

instead.

---------------------------------------------------------
Tom Wade | EMail: tee dot wade at eurokom dot ie
EuroKom | Tel: [phone]
A2, Nutgrove Office Park | Fax: [phone]
Rathfarnham | Disclaimer: This is not a disclaimer
Dublin 14 | Tip: "Friends don't let friends do Unix !"
Ireland

[Jackson, Craig (Gale)]

The Berkeley Unix ftp server historically just added the arguments to LIST
to a "ls -l" command, letting the shell expand any wildcards. This
also allowed arguments to be specified. WinSCP is obviously depending
on this behavior.

I wonder if it does the same for a Windows FTP server?

Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Whalen [mailto:***@process.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 3:29 PM
To: info-***@process.com
Subject: RE: FTP between Multinet and WINSCP

I installed the latest version and connected via FTP with Wireshark
running.
I see that WinSCP sent "LIST -a" to get a listing of the files in the
directory.
MultiNet FTP interprets this as looking for the file "-a" and finds (and
displays) nothing.
RFC 959 (FTP) says that the argument to LIST is a pathname, not Unix
flags, so MultiNet FTP is right and WinSCP is not compatible as it
expects to be able to pass Unix flags.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Wade [mailto:***@picard.eurokom.ie]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:32 AM
To: info-***@process.com
Subject: FTP between Multinet and WINSCP


Has anyone got a product called WINSCP (FTP client for windows) working
with Multinet 5.2 using plain FTP?

From what I can see it doesn't look like it, but I just wanted to check

before I tell the customer it's not compatible, and to look at FileZilla

instead.

---------------------------------------------------------
Tom Wade | EMail: tee dot wade at eurokom dot ie
EuroKom | Tel: [phone]
A2, Nutgrove Office Park | Fax: [phone]
Rathfarnham | Disclaimer: This is not a disclaimer
Dublin 14 | Tip: "Friends don't let friends do Unix !"
Ireland

[Bob Koehler]

Post by Tom Wade
Has anyone got a product called WINSCP (FTP client for windows) working
with Multinet 5.2 using plain FTP?
From what I can see it doesn't look like it, but I just wanted to check
before I tell the customer it's not compatible, and to look at FileZilla
instead.

I used to use winscp, but after an update it quit working a few years
ago. I moved to Filezilla and haven't looked back.

I suspect the winscp folks don't test against any stack on VMS.