[ftputil] ftpuTIL Portability Issues

Stefan Schwarzer sschwarzer at sschwarzer.net
Tue Oct 4 22:40:47 CEST 2005


Hi Richard,

thanks for your help in debugging ftputil, in particular the test script.

On 2005-10-02 21:33, Richard S. Gordon wrote:
> I'm looking for help resolving portability issues with FTPUTIL.
> They are demonstrated in the attacched program.

That depends on the meaning of "demonstration". ;-) On my Gentoo Linux
the programm succeeds. So do most of your runs on other platforms but ...

>     LOCAL                 REMOTE                 FTPLIB / FTPUTIL
>     --------------------  --------------------   ----------------
> [...]
>     Pentium based system  Pentium based system   ftputil traps
>     running Windows 2000  running Linux          during directory
>     using Cygwin Shell                           interpretation
>     --------------------  --------------------   ----------------

What kind of trap does happen? Could you please post the traceback?
Thanks in advance!

Stefan


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