Re: MVS FTP interface (Was: Re: LYNX-DEV Two bugs in Lynx)

[Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)]

On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> Jim Spath wrote:
> > I put Paul's patches onto the Lynx2-7 set, and accessed the EPA host: 
> > ...
> > I then retrieved the last file shown here, which is a one-liner.  The
> > problem that Paul describes, the long delay in starting up, still exists. 
> > However, this socket level problem is beyond my ken. 
> Do you mean that if you wait long enough, it actually retrieves a file?
> I never had that patience.  :-)
> ...
> Note that this is not ready for General Availability.

I've just run another test, and it looks like retrieval of a PDS member
works.  The test system has a partitioned data set called
'PUBLIC.NFS.TARB' with many modules, including TELNETSE and MAKEFILE.  The
former was brought into Lynx directly with:

./lynx -cfg  lynx.cfg "ftp://epaibm.rtpnc.epa.gov/nfs.tarb(makefile)"

The quotes were necessary to protect the parens;  escaping them with %29
and %28 didn't work for me.  The time delay didn't happen in this case so
that seems related to building the ftp root file list.

Note: use the above file only as a test.  It has copyrights in it.

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