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campus - The FTP-server for the
BeOS®
Nothing in the world can be perfect or finished and campus is no
exception... So be prepared to face everything that doesn't work
or is not (yet ?) implemented.
General note:
ftp is a very old protocol and has certain commands that are not
needed anymore or simply have no meaning in todays computing world.
In the following I list the most important commands that are missing
or that are not completely implemented.
Most of these commands will never be used by ftp clients so there
is not really a missing functionality. The list is just for informational
purposes.
- Unimplemented commands
- ACCT (account)
This command is for sites that make a difference between
the login of a user and the right to store or retrieve
files. campus does not make this differentiation
so the command is not needed.
- SMNT (structure mount)
This command allows the user to mount a different "file
system data structure"... I really don't know, what the
heck this should really do. So I don't support it. As
always: if you want to have it (and know what it should do),
mail me.
- Ignored commands and options
- ALLO (allocate)
This command is not needed by campus, so it is
ignored. (But nonetheless it is parsed and checked if
its syntax is correct.)
- MODE (transmission modes)
The modes 'B' (block mode) and 'C' (compressed mode) are
ignored.
- STRU (file structure)
File structures 'P' (page structure) and 'R' (record structure)
are ignored.
- TYPE (data type)
Type 'E' (EBCDIC type) is ignored. When the type is 'A' (ascii
type) the form must be 'N' (non print). With type 'L' (local)
size must be set to 8.
- Problems with config reload
- When the configuration is reloaded all currently logged in users
still use the old config and the values stored there, therefore
they can do everything that was allowed before the change of
the configuration.
- The userlimit does not work correctly, all counters are reset
to zero when the config is reloaded. Until all users that have
logged in before the change have logged out there may be more
users logged in than allowed according to the limit field.
- Missing features
See campus: Things to do
- Tranferring binary files in ascii mode
There are some problems when you try to transmit a binary file and
have the transfer mode set to ascii. The standard ftp seems to have
problems with this, ncftp does not... Anyway, if you transmit your
binary file in ascii mode you can be sure that it is useless
afterwards anyway.
If you encounter a bug or any strange behaviour please send a bug report to
me.
Copyright © 1997-99 Stegemann & Co., Inc., All Rights reserved.
Created: March 4, 1998. Last modified: April 25, 1999.
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