Making sure a program gets to the receiver intact

[Ian Farquhar]

On Dec 27,  7:14pm, Nesta Stubbs wrote:
> put it int he file that pops up from the FTP server when you switch to
> that directory, am not sur what the file is called, but like when you
> switch to the pub/Linux directory on sunsite, it gives youa  rundown of
> what Linux is and all.

The ftpd's that implement the directory-change messages is not a standard
one, and that functionality has been added to the servers which support it
(possibly Linux ships with wuftpd, but no commercial version of Unix I know
does.)  The extended servers are very widely available, and although they
do make ftp so much nicer to administer, they are not as widely deployed as I
would have expected by now.

						Ian.