On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:32:25 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>I've been using WS_FTP Pro between Windows XP and "conventional" z/OS
>datasets for some time now with no problems.
>
>I just tried to access some OMVS files and they are displaying very
>strangely in WS_FTP. If I leave the filter blank, then all directories and
>files have access permissions (you know, strings like drwxr-xr-x) displayed
>instead of their names. If I set the filter to *, then the names are
>displayed but folders are listed as binary files with a colon appended to
>their names (e.g., a folder named source is displayed as a binary file named
>source: ) and the cd command no longer works. I can't find a relevant
>option. Has anyone else seen this? What am I doing wrong?
>
Probably nothing. I bet it's WS_FTP Pro. Likely it does something
similar to:
ftp> quote syst
215 MVS is the operating system of this server. FTP Server is running on
z/OS.
On seeing that the host is MVS, it parses the output of an
NLST (or perhaps LIST) command as if it were generated by
LISTDS rather than by /bin/ls.
Use linemode FTP fom a command tool. Or some other client. FileZilla?
-- gil
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