Hi! 

lftp is a very nice client, and I started using it more and more! However,
it seems that lftp has a problem parsing the LIST output for some newer 
wu-ftpd versions, because the number of columns in the output has increased:

lftp :~> version
Lftp | Version 2.6.6 | Copyright (c) 1996-2002 Alexander V. Lukyanov

lftp :~> open ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
lftp ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de:~> ls
total 32
drwx--x--x   2 599    @ 599    @       80 Feb 10  2003 bin
drwx--x--x   3 599    @ 599    @       80 Feb 10  2003 etc
drwx--x--x   2 599    @ 599    @       80 Feb 10  2003 lib
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   @ root   @     8192 Feb  5  2003 lost+found
drwxrwxr-x  11 599    @ 599    @     1024 Aug 28 00:48 pub

lftp ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de:/> cls -1
10  2003 bin/
10  2003 etc/
10  2003 lib/
28 00:48 pub/
Feb  5  2003 lost+found/

While this appears to be a cosmetic problem, it renders the mirror command of 
lftp unusable for this server (and maybe others).

The version of the server is: wu-2.6.2(1) Wed Aug 27 13:12:53 CEST 2003.

Anyway, parsing of LIST command output is problematic. Maybe lftp could use 
MLSx commands (where supported by the server)? 

Regards
Thomas

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