I suppose a certain amount of confusion is normal for a Posix newbie, but
now even FTP is confusing!

I've read through the guides available at docs.hp.com (ok, not every word,
and "guide" seems to be the keyword here - I can't find a "reference"), and
get the distinct impression that FTP doesn't do much for the user on the
local side, such as simple stuff like listing the current directory, for
which I'm instructed to preface MPE commands with the de facto standard ":".
While it's very nice having familiar MPE so readily available, what if I'm
running FTP from the shell, or worse(?), on a Unix box?

Also, it looks like FTP (client) really runs in "MPE-land", ie, *.* must be
written ./*.* etc.

So how would I ls vs the current local directory?  Is there a de facto
pass-this-to-posix prefix I've overlooked?

K Tracy Pierce
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