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Date:      Tue, 6 Jan 1998 10:16:24 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   ftp(1) (was: Re: Time to retire fetch? )
Message-ID:  <199801061516.KAA27542@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199801061322.XAA00489@word.smith.net.au>
References:  <199801051509.KAA23284@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199801061322.XAA00489@word.smith.net.au>

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<<On Tue, 06 Jan 1998 23:52:41 +1030, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> said:

> In practice, how bogus is this?  If you want the 'nlst' behaviour, 
> there is the 'nlist' command.  (If it *is* bogus, feel free to change 
> it back, or ask me to...)

No, I don't want `NLST', I want `LIST'.  The 4.4 FTP client always
used `LIST' whether you asked for a `ls' or a `dir'.  This is the
correct behavior, since `NLST' rarely includes all the information you
want.

-GAWollman

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