topic Re: FTPD in Operating System - HP-UX

FTPD

Jerry Papuga — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:02:39 GMT

I'm running ftpd Version 1.1.214.8 on HP-UX 11.00. It doesn't support white spaces in directory and file names. I'm wondering if there is any way around it.
Thanks for any sugestions.

Re: FTPD

TwoProc — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:08:37 GMT

You could try putting backslashes before the spaces. It works in the shell - might work in ftp.

Re: FTPD

Paul Sperry — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:39:00 GMT

Maybe try a GUI ftp client there are several of them. Here's one

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/FTP/wxftp-0.4.4/

Re: FTPD

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:32:10 GMT

Hi Jerry:

You should be able to quote (single or double) the filenames. I recall having to do this once in 10.x when I had to transfer a file from Unix to Windows, and the Windows application required a filename with embedded spaces.

In my opinion, the use of filenames containing spaces is absolutely insane, and anyone using them deserves every migraine they get!

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: FTPD

Jerry Papuga — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:05:27 GMT

Thak you for all respones. I need to clarify scenerio here. In my environment, I have users who use windows machines to up/down to ftp server, and there is no way I can force them to put any effort in order to make my life easier. In this case I need to accomodate them. At this point I'm cosidering mayby installing different than HP ftpd on the system. Has anybody done this before?
Thanks