+1 to Dave Roberts' comment.
On 10/9/08, Dave Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Francia wrote: >> Dave Roberts wrote: >>> A standard command line FTP Client doesn't do any ordering of the list >>> information. So as a user, I want to see the files come back sorted >>> by name. As I recall, every server I've connected to does this. >> Then I think that this should be a suggestion for the ftpclient >> implementation not a MUST requirement. > > The command line FTP client is pre-installed on millions of > computers across the world. The major OS vendors are not going to > start implementing filename sorting within those clients. > >> I'm suggesting to change the Javadoc should say: > > I don't agree. The ordering is beneficial to all the clients that > don't support it and harmful to none. Clients that do support > ordering are therefore capable of getting the list of files and > re-ordering them according to the requirements of the client user. > >
