RFC 775 (rfc775) - Page 2 of 6

Directory oriented FTP commands

DIRECTORY ORIENTED FTP COMMANDS

                         David Mankins (dm@bbn-unix)
                         Dan Franklin (dan@bbn-unix)
                          A. D. Owen (ADOwen@bbnd)


      As a part of the Remote Site Maintenance (RSM) project for  ARPA,
      BBN  has installed and maintains the software of several DEC PDP-
      11s running the Unix operating system.  Since Unix  has  a  tree-
      like  directory  structure,  in  which directories are as easy to
      manipulate as ordinary files, we  have  found  it  convenient  to
      expand  the  FTP  servers  on  these machines to include commands
      which deal with the creation of  directories.   Since  there  are
      other  hosts  on  the  ARPA net which have tree-like directories,
      including Tops-20 and  Multics,  we  have  tried  to  make  these
      commands as general as possible.

      We have added four commands to our server:



           XMKD child
                         Make a directory with the name "child".

           XRMD child
                         Remove the directory with the name "child".

           XPWD
                         Print the current working directory.

           XCUP
                         Change to the parent of  the  current  working
                         directory.



      The  "child"  argument  should  be   created   (removed)   as   a
      subdirectory of the current working directory, unless the "child"
      string contains sufficient information to  specify  otherwise  to
      the server, e.g., "child" is an absolute pathname (in Multics and
      Unix), or child is something like "" to Tops-20.













      RFC 775          Directory oriented FTP commands