From: peter devoil (devoil@helios.usq.EDU.AU)
Date: 08/09/93 

From: devoil@helios.usq.EDU.AU (peter devoil)
Subject: Re: mget / mput = bad director components
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1993 22:28:09 GMT

<MTF108@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>net-2 stuff.. I'm also using a slip connection. Whenever I ftp into
> of my machine and do an mput I get:
>ftp> mput a*
>Bad directory components

I have the same problem, and assume it's a color ls on the remote machine
giving weird escape sequences that ftp can't understand. I haven't found
a fix apart from replacing ls.

Yours,
PdeV.