Solution: FTP listing came empty

[antoineL]

First things first, many thanks to Christian to provide us such a useful tool.

I am using TC/CE 2.51 on WinMobile 5.0 and was trying to connect to a TypFTP server (français or English), without initial success, only received empty listings . Most strange was that I got no problem with several other clients, including Delphi's TC.

So I went to this forum, and quickly discovered the log feature; it quickly showed that the problem was that "normal" clients sent plain LIST commands, while TC/CE (or the embedded MS ftp client?) sent

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LIST /

to begin with; and of course I confirmed (using plain Windows/BSD ftp client

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ls /

command) that TypFTP was giving empty listings for this sub-command.

Before sending bug reports everywhere I searched harder on both forums, and I came back with this post (which indicates how turn on the "ShowHidden" feature), which said it used the

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LIST -la /

command instead Look promising
So I tried it, and SUCCESS

So probably something good to know widely, which is why I post it here (perhaps to give Christian an idea to make this feature more easily visible?)

[ghisler(Author)]

Indeed TC Pocket uses absolute paths in the LIST command, while Total Commander for Windows uses the combination of
cd /some/directory
LIST

The latter method is much more complex, so I implemented something easier and smaller for the PocketPC, which should be as lightweight as possible...

[antoineL]

so I implemented something easier and smaller for the PocketPC, which should be as lightweight as possible...

Yes of course, and I agree it is mandatory to go this way.

But would it be possible to have an access in the FTP configuration UI to the ShowHidden parameter, without adding too much weight?

[ghisler(Author)]

I will consider it, thanks for the suggestion.