The colon special casing for VMS/DOS causes a lot of problems for real servers:
lftp 0:/t> cls Me: My Stuff/ lftp 0:/t> find ./ ./Me: My Stuff/ <--- 550 Me: My Stuff: No such file or directory find: Access failed: 550 Me: My Stuff: No such file or directory lftp 0:/t> cd Me:\ My\ Stuff/ cd: Access failed: 550 Me: My Stuff: No such file or directory lftp 0:/t> pwd ftp://0/t lftp 0:/t> cd /t cd ok, cwd=/t lftp 0:/t> cd Me:\ My\ Stuff/ cd ok, cwd=Me: My Stuff lftp 0:Me: My Stuff> cd .. cd: Access failed: 550 Me:: No such file or directory -- Glenn Maynard