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   mark lewis to Bj”rn Wiberg   
   File base with FTP Name with dot in it?   
   06 Apr 22 13:45:10   
   
   REPLY: 2:201/137 48ce743f   
   MSGID: 1:3634/12.73 624dd22c   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20180707   
   CHRS: CP437 2   
   TZUTC: -0400   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17   
    On 2022 Apr 05 16:24:54, you wrote to me:   
      
    BW>>> To my surprise, they seem to try to enter a /robots.txt subdirectory   
      
    ml>> that's how they decide if it is a file or a directory... if it is a   
    ml>> file, then they download it...   
      
    BW> Yes, I suspected that might be the case... I wonder, though, if they   
    BW> do anything special if the cd succeeds   
      
   if the cd succeeds they do an ls to see if there's file and directories in   
   it... if there are, they download them and continue walking through the   
   directories...   
      
    BW> or if they just conclude "not a file" and skip it. (According to the   
    BW> spec, they shouldn't look for anything inside that directory, if it   
    BW> exists.)   
      
   what spec is that?   
      
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