Any thoughts on where I might go to get more ideas?

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Fuzzy Logic<[email protected]> wrote:
> I was hoping to use netrw.vim to view members in a z/OS PDS, but I
> cannot quite get the format of the URL correct. (Windows XP; Vim 7.2,
> Big version with GUI)
>
> I first tried
>
> :e ftp://usern...@hostname/HLQ.PDS(MEMBER)
>
> As expected, the z/OS ftp daemon prepends my username and looks for
> USERNAME.HLQ.PDS(MEMBER) which is not going to be found.
>
> So, I tried it with single quotes (z/OS convention):
>
> :e ftp://usern...@hostname/'HLQ.PDS(MEMBER)'
>
> No joy. The netrw debug tab contains a lot of information, but it
> looks like the local name has a trailing \' (backslash, single quote),
> which I think is the source of the problem here. I can see the the ftp
> daemon found the member and was happy to send, but the local filename
> was unacceptable because of the backslash and so, could not be opened.
>
> If there is a more specific location to ask about netrw.vim, I'll
> happily take my question there.
>
> FWIW, if I want to open USERNAME.PDS(MEMBER), that works:
>
> :e ftp://usern...@hostname/PDS(MEMBER)
>
> So, it seems limited to just the times when I need the single quotes
> to prevent the prepending of my username.
>
> Fuzzy
> --
> Latin: Dum spiro spero.
> English: While I breathe, I hope.
>



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