Subject: Re: dir command

From: Tim Capps <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 09:49:21 -0800

>> There has been a great deal posted re: the dir and ls commands on
>> Solaris.

That has to be the understatement of the year so far.

>This "problem" is not specfic to Solaris, but I belive to every UNIX 
>that supports setroot.

True.  Since a big percentage of the traffic on this list has to do
with various folks trying to get dir working on various platforms, perhaps
this indicates a fundamental design flaw in the way dir works.
Nobody has any trouble with ls, as the code to support that command is
built in to wu_ftpd.  Suggestion: why not build the code in for dir
too - it's not that difficult, and it would save a hell of a lot of
wasted time on this problem.

Tim

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From: [email-masked] (Koos van den Hout _U nix and we all_)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 20:16:03 +0100 (MET)

> wasted time on this problem.

I don't agree on this one. The next thing that will not run is tar, compress,
gzip and other convertors.

The basic rule is :

- Find statically linked versions of ls, tar, gzip

or

- Find out which libraries these programs need and copy those libraries to
~ftp/lib

Complete answers for both are in the FAQ at
http://www.hvu.nl/~koos/wu-ftpd-faq.html

In general : this list is not about the newest 'simpleterm for windows', it's
about a special kind of ftp-server. Which means (in my opinion) that people
should read the manual first, read the faq too, read all the readme's that
come with wu-ftpd, and *then* ask questions.

I would very much appriciate it if the 'new user info' for this list contained
a pointer to the current faq. The info-page at wuarchive itself for the ftpd
contains the pointer. (that's http://www.hvu.nl/~koos/wu-ftpd-faq.html again).

                                        Grtx. KH

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