Re: Nvu

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/10/2006, at 5:13 AM, Jon Paris wrote:

> Anyone out there using Nvu?
>
> If so - have you been able to get it to publish to OS/400?  When I try 
> it
> just says "... unsupported at this time" - it's FTP for goodness sake 
> - how
> "supported" does it need to be?

I initially thought this might be caused by the default naming format 
but I have my systems set to use the Unix listing format and naming 
format so I installed the Mac version of Nvu and got the same stupid 
error. The Publish function in Nvu successfully logs on to the OS/400 
FTP server and then fails with the error message. My guess is that the 
FTP client part is checking the message returned by the FTP server to 
determine what OS it's using and then complains. OS/400 gives:
	215 OS/400 is the remote operating system. The TCP/IP version is 
VxRyMz.
or possibly:
        215- OS/400 is the remote operating system.
while a standard Unix-y server gives:
        Remote system type is UNIX

Rather stupid of Nvu because FTP is FTP. Although FTP servers usually 
have extras the lowest common denominator is the same. If they don't 
recognise the server they should just presume Unix and carry on.

I downloaded the source code to see what they were checking for and 
immediately entered the usual "open-source maze". 50 gazillion source 
files, no instructions, no decent naming convention, nothing obviously 
related to FTP so no idea where it checks for this. Did a source search 
for the error text and got too many possible positives. The code might 
be "free" but my time certainly isn't. I've got better things to do 
than stuff about with such an unholy mess.

I suggest you raise it with the authors and get them to remove or 
modify the stupid server type check.

You might be able to fake Nvu out by changing the TCP11E6 and TCP1222 
messages in QTCP/QTCPMSGF to say UNIX instead of OS/400. I haven't 
tried this to see if it works. Might possibly need to end and restart 
FTP server after you do this. Should be dynamic but might be cached 
during start-up.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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