Tracy Pierce wrote:
>
> 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?

While in the MPE FTP client, prefixing MPE commands with ":" works perfectly
well from the shell:

:sh -L
########################################################################

               MPE/iX Shell and Utilities (A.50.02)
    COPYRIGHT (c) Hewlett-Packard Company 1992, All Rights Reserved.

########################################################################


INVENT3K:/BIXBY/PUB$ /SYS/ARPA/FTP
File Transfer Protocol [A0010A02] (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 1990
ftp> :listfile ./@
 PATH= /BIXBY/PUB/

 .bash_history    .profile         .sh_history      ABLDINTX
 ACSUMCAT         ACSUMHLP         ACSUMLED         ALKEDCAT
 ALKEDHLP         AUTOCM           AUTOLED          AUTOSPTH
 BARBARA          BOTH             CALLER           ESTREAM
 FOOBAR           GETENV.c         GETENVC          GETENVCO
 GETENVM          GETENVP          GETENVP2         JOB1
 JOB2             MYSETVAR         PATCH000         PATCHIX
 PATCHVT          a.out            agree.txt        barb.txt
 bash             bic.zip          bin/             chargen
 data.txt         dead.letter      etc/             foobar/
 fwtest           include/         info/            invent3k.crt
 junk/            lib/             libexec/         makesocksxl
 man/             mbox             patchix65.store  public_html/
 share/           snow.html        src/             tcpdump.nomad
 try.mpe          trysftp          tster            tt$a
 tt`a             wgetnh           wgettst

ftp> quit
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