Solaris

Hi, I have a question, I have a legacy windows application that download files using FTP..The server previously was a Windows based server but it was upgraded to Sun Solaris 10. And that was when the application stopped working.

After a long time of troubleshooting, I might have found that the problem was that the application uses the "\" in the FTP commands but the FTP server does not recognize "\". So I was wondering if FTP in Sun Solaris 10 has anyway of supporting "\" and "/" as well.

Thanks

i doubt that the "\" was used in ftp transfers. all unix/linux based systems are using "/" to point out a path to a file or directory.
and no, i don't think that you can change this!

yea..it was programmed using VB6..i think the programmer was relying back on windows APIs during programming..

now i cannot change the codes because the source codes are lost...and i am stuck...

hi,

try a free hex-editor, load your windows-exe and search for the
string with your backslashes (\). Then make \ to / and save the exe.
This will often help.
Be sure to have a copy of your exe before changing the values.

cu
lowbyte

found a solution to use ProFTPD instead which allow for the mod_rewrite module to specify "\"...