New FtpServer
Released
V. 0.71

by Peter Moylan
AUTHOR OF FTPSERVER AND WEASEL

Finally, the new version of FtpServer is available, at
ftp://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/software/ftpser071.zip
or via my web pages (see signature).

Here's the list of changes.

 Version 0.71
 Symbolic links implemented.
Fixed logging error: miscalculation of transfer time when
time wraps past midnight.
Changed the response to the HELP command, for Windows
clients that weren't happy with the original 'RTFM'.
Activated the "linger on close" option for file transfers,
to make user logging more accurate.
Listing format changed slightly so as to report the same
permissions for owner, group, and world. (An ftp client
should only ever use the "world" permissions, but it
seems that some clients aren't smart enough to realise that.)
Added support for NLST -a.
Added a check for restart point beyond end of file.

The biggest change is for the symbolic links. You won't see much
external difference (except in the Setup program), but internally there
have been some really major changes. Because of this, there are
probably some bugs that have slipped past my testing, and you
should treat this version as a beta release (i.e. keep a copy of the
previous version, just in case something goes wrong). You should
also
- read the new manual, if you haven't already done so, to see what
the changes are;
- read the README file to see how to convert your existing INI files
to the new format. I'll continue to support both the old and new formats
up until version 0.80, but after that support for the old format will be
dropped, and you'll have to re-enter all your user data if you haven't
done the conversion by then.

The next piece of good news is that this release will finally leave me
free to bring out a new version of Weasel soon. The Weasel development
has been held up because of all the time spent on implementing
symbolic links in FtpServer - it turned out to be a much bigger job than
I expected - but now you can expect a new release of Weasel within
the next couple of weeks. The new version will properly support
outgoing mail, including re-tries (for about 4 days) for mail that can't
be delivered immediately. In fact I already have that feature implemented,
but it's still not quite right and requires a bit more work.

There will be no new features in FtpServer for the next little while.
I'll fix bugs if they are detected, but won't add features until I've brought
Weasel up to the point where all basic features (including the optional APOP
and UIDL commands, which are now missing) are implemented.


CONTACT AUTHOR:

Peter Moylan
peter@ee.newcastle.edu.au
OS/2 help and software at
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/html/os2home.html

@Macarlo, Inc.
@Macarlo's Shareware & Web
OS/2
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