Hello, While using backslashes or quotes fixed the problem with cd'ing to a mainframe directory, occassionally I am still getting this error:
ls: Access failed: 501 A qualifier in "AAFTPA.'/'PD.ABCFILES.FTP" begins with an invalid character Since I never really resolved the source of the problem with quoting, I suspect that quoting or backslashing is only helping sometimes and that some data passed is being misinterpreted by the mainframe. Therefore I was wondering if there is some way to disable metacharacter expansion such that I don't have to do things like put backslashes in front of the single quotes, as I do here: lftp> cd \''PD.ABCFILES.FTP\' I tried changing my SHELL variable to sh, ksh, and csh but none made any difference. Any suggestions to help metacharacters passed in their entirity to the mainframe? thanks, Bloom
