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 Group of the IETF.                                                        

       Title     : Extended Directory Listing and Restart Mechanism for FTP
       Author(s) : R. Elz, P. Hethmon
       Filename  : draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-01.txt
       Pages     : 27
       Date      : 06/27/1997

In order to overcome the problems caused by the undefined format of the 
current FTP LIST command output, a new command is needed to transfer 
standardized listing information from Server-FTP to Client-FTP.  Commands 
to enable this are defined in this document.        
                       
This proposal also extends the FTP protocol to allow character sets other 
than US-ASCII[1] by allowing the transmission of 8-bit characters and the 
recommended use of UTF-8[2] encoding.                    
                  
Much implemented, but long undocumented, mechanisms to permit restarts of 
interrupted data transfers in STREAM mode, are also included here.   
      
This version contains changes as agreed at the 38th IETF, Memphis, April 
1997.  In particular: the SIZE MDTM and modified REST draft has been folded
into this doc, (and the FEAT and OPTS commands have been moved out to a 
separate draft).  Almost everything that was case dependent no longer is, 
MLST/MLSD no longer send replies on the control connection but the ancient 
STAT command has been revitalised. Files of type "link" are no longer 
reported, and the 'x' permission indicator has gone to meet its maker.  The
draft has also be editorially updated in some significant ways.  
This paragraph will be deleted from the final version of this document.          

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