Tracy Pierce wrote:
> And I note that the :/bin/ls solution isn't, actually; there's no shell to
> expand on constructs like *.*.  Again, FTP is MPE-aware, use an mpe command
> for best results.

As Greg previously noted, you CAN get shell wildcard expansion from within
FTP.ARPA.SYS, albeit in a very wordy manner:

:XEQ SH.HPBIN.SYS '-c "ls *.*"'

> This might be the example we were looking for last week: what's the
> difference twixt an MPE program and a Posix program?

Your question is too broad, please be more specific...

> I sure hope you had a great vacation; I'm sure you're already quite fondly
> looking forward to the next one.  That longing will pass, or at least fade
> for a while.  Welcome back (and this week I'll ask a bunch of neophyte Samba
> questions)!

Since I am a Samba neophyte myself, I'll be watching to see how Samba experts
like Lars or Michael Gueterman answer your questions.  ;-)
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