On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 18:43:25 -0400, John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote:
>
>transfers. I never tried to ftp to /dev/null.
>
Don't bother:
Command:
syst
>>> SYST
215 MVS is the operating system of this server. FTP Server is running on
z/OS.
Command:
get 'SYS1.maclib(splevel)' /dev/null
Get fails: /dev/null is a character special file.
Command:
Most FTP servers and clients will deal only with regular files (OS X seems
to be an exception). For the server, this may be due caution; for the client
it's a foolish and needless limitation.
Further:
Command:
get 'NULLFILE' foo.bar
>>> PORT 127,0,0,1,4,203
200 Port request OK.
>>> RETR 'NULLFILE'
550 Data set NULLFILE not found
But:
Command:
put 'sys1.maclib(splevel)' 'NULLFILE'
>>> SITE FIXrecfm 80 LRECL=80 RECFM=FB BLKSIZE=27920
200 SITE command was accepted
>>> PORT 127,0,0,1,4,204
200 Port request OK.
>>> STOR 'NULLFILE'
125 Storing data set NULLFILE
250 Transfer completed successfully.
30176 bytes transferred in 0.005 seconds. Transfer rate 6035.20 Kbytes/sec.
... I wonder where it went?
-- gil
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