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On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:05:31AM -0600, Leif Svalgaard wrote: > From: Mark Waterbury <mark.s.waterbury@worldnet.att.net> > > Of course, what would be really "nice" (and "popular" with the > > AS/400 and iSeries crowd) would be if someone created a nice > > PC-based FTP client, similar in concept to CuteFTP or WSFTP, > > but one that "understood" OS/400; that is, when it connects to an > > OS/400 host, it could adapt itself to understand how to do all this > > "stuff"... (anyone up for writing one?) > Jeez, FTP was supposed to be a standard... It is. The problem is that, in being a universal standard, it does not care what the filesystems on the other end of the connection look like, nor what the names involved convey in implicit meanings. The OS/400's mapping of its unique filesystem onto a flat namespace with semantically significant file names is probably the bext IBM could come up with, but the underyling assumptions are sufficiently different that some compromises must be made.
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