Re: AIX No such file *.msg
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > And that's assuming that all servers support MDTM/SIZE, which I'm not > sure is a given. Not at all sure. That's assuming some of them do, as it's known not all do. But these commands have been invented exactly for machine-processing, so they should be used to avoid the pain and also to encourage people writing servers to include them. AFAIK even original Netscape Navigator (i.e. probably some ten years ago) used them, so it's not that they are of interest for some corner cases only. > But if we assumed "reasonable FTP servers" then the current parser > would work as well. Well, a server may give strange formatting of LIST -- and don't forget the output is supposed to be human-readable, so it may be in a non-C locale too -- but still support MDTM/SIZE and NLST as expected. Maciej
Re: AIX No such file *.msg
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > >> As you said, parsing UNIX directory listings is a nightmare. If >> someone has a suggestion for better heuristics, please go ahead and >> suggest. > > Hmm, use MDTM/SIZE to attempt to get at file dates and sizes and > NLST to get lone file names? Easier said, than done, I know... :-( And that's assuming that all servers support MDTM/SIZE, which I'm not sure is a given. Not at all sure. > But used by other software and with reasonable FTP servers it works > rather well. But if we assumed "reasonable FTP servers" then the current parser would work as well.
Re: AIX No such file *.msg
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > As you said, parsing UNIX directory listings is a nightmare. If > someone has a suggestion for better heuristics, please go ahead and > suggest. Hmm, use MDTM/SIZE to attempt to get at file dates and sizes and NLST to get lone file names? Easier said, than done, I know... :-( But used by other software and with reasonable FTP servers it works rather well. Maciej
