File type wrong on OpenVMS remote file view

[anwa]

First thanks for an excellent product. FZ is very appreciated by my VMS colleagues.

There is a small problem that would be nice to get fixed:

In the Filetype column of the VMS remote file listing the file types include a semicolon ";" followed by a number. This causes FZ to not recognize VMS file types. I have an example below of what a remote VMS file view may look like:

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Filename             Filesize             Filetype               Last modified
test.zip;1            1024                zip;1 File              2008-02-10
test.zip;2            1024                zip;2 File              2008-02-10

The column "Filename" is correct but the column "Filetype" should have the ";xxx" stripped. I doubt that FZ recognizes "zip;1" as a "zip" file. With the filetype correct I guess that transfer of ASCII filetypes will work as intended, and also that the correct icons will be displayed on the remote file view.

[RienTimmer]

Yes, version 3 totally screws up file transfers to/from VMS.

In version 2 there was a checkbox on the File Transfer Setting page: "Display all file revisions on VMS servers".
When you unchecked that, only one file revision would be shown without the trailing semicolon and version number and those would not be included in the local file name either. Why has this functionality disappeared?
I uninstalled version 3.0.7 and went back to 2.2.32 to get the functionality back because I work a lot with VMS.

While we're on the subject of VMS (and perhaps other operating systems): it would nice to have separate Ascii/Binary lists for each server type (or just named lists). The reason for this is that a file type can be Ascii on one OS and binary on another, e.g.: .COM is an executable on Dos/Windows, but a command procedure (script) on VMS. Transferring it with the wrong transfer setting will render it unusable.

Another thing: the View->Show hidden files functionality should be in the Site Manager because this setting is site dependent and should not be a global setting.

Regards,
Rien.

[anwa]

Version 3 has the benefit that it supports ODS5 file- and directory names in a very smooth way. So in my case using the older version 2.2.xx is not a working option.

The correct handling of VMS version numbers and file types would be very helpful. Let us just hope that our FileZilla friends can find the time to implement this.

[RienTimmer]

Any news on this?

[anwa]

None to my knowledge yet, which is a pity.

I can imagine that "botg" is quite busy, judging from all posts. Lets just hope someone in the FZ team can put some time into this. It would be really wonderful to get the remote file types correct. And , of course, the other items you mentioned.

[boco]

botg is the one and only developer, the reason why he is so busy. Plus, he has a life, Filezilla is a spare time project.

[RienTimmer]

I'm sure botg is working hard on Filezilla in his meagre spare time, and I am the first not to begrudge him a life, but why did he take out perfectly working functionality, like dropping the VMS version numbers when transferring a file? This must have taken at least some of his time...

Rien.

[botg]

Nothing got taken out. Guess why the first digit changed in the version number, complete rewrite.

[anwa]

Hi,

I downloaded the latest nightly build. I saw that there were some VMS file type fixes put in. I'm afraid that the change did not quite work out. Now the VMS file type column on the remote view is empty .
If a test site is needed, please use "ftp.ctrl-c.liu.se" (login as anonymous).
You can get an example file listing in the directory: FTP:[ANONYMOUS.VMS.NYDAHL.filezilla_test_1^._2^.3]

Please let me know if I can assist you in testing.

[botg]

Thanks, fixed.

[anwa]

Congratulations Botg

The file type auto-detect feature for VMS now works (build 2008-04-17) granted that the ASCII file types have been entered correctly under "settings->transfer->file types".

A final touch would be to add a checkbox under "settings->transfer->file types" saying:
"Strip VMS version number on downloaded files".
By enabling the checkbox files would be stored on the client side as "test.log" and not as "test.log;7". By default the checkbox should be enabled (stripping version numbers on downloaded files).

This is very very good.

[begude]

Hi,
I have the same problem.
I transfert some files from Vms to Windows and on Windows, the file name is "DISTNETBEANS_IGUIDE_RELNOTES.PS;2", the system doesn't recognize a Postcript file.
Anything new ?
My version is 3.2.3.1

Thanks

[boco]

Please always test with the latest version. 3.2.5 at time of writing.

[begude]

Hi,
I have now the lastest version but the problem still the same.
I don't see a new setting to ignore Open Vms version.
Thanks

[boco]

OK, that's a dev question, then. Waiting for botg...