VMS?

Question

A user writes:

I'm hoping you can help me with this question.

I've noticed on your website that you run under Windows, Unix and Linux.

I also noted on your forum list that VMS is not supported.

I'm trying to find out, if I have an application written in Java and deployed on Unix which utilizes your com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPClient class and it tries to retrieve a file via ftp from a VMS Server is this possible or is this construed as VMS not being supported?

I know I can manually ftp from the command line and my next step is to snoop the network packets and compare the difference between trying to retrieve Unix to Unix vs. Unix to VMS.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Below is a partial log of what I'm seeing.


Error while FTP-ing. Skipping entry
com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPException: Failed to set default directory to /mcla/. bad directory file format
at
com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPControlSocket.validateReply(FTPControlSocket



java:533)
at com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPClient.chdir(FTPClient.java:1281)
at

Answer 1

We don't use VMS but we've had numerous reports of people using edtFTPj on VMS successfully.

I suspect your directory "/mcla/." would be better called as "/mcla".