FTP limit on mget

[freavis]

I am ftping to a SCO server and doing a mget on some files and notice that somewhere between 150 and 180 files there is a file limit. I get the error:
"Arguments too long
can't find list of remote files, oops"
I find this to be a rather small number since AIX will let you do over 500 on a mget. Is there a way to increase this limit? I've tried this with sco 5.0.5 and 5.0.6 and it is the same.
Thank you

 

[freavis]

also the files that I'm trying to do the mget on 25.3
they look something like this
DMAPCHECK2001081609425019.DSS

 

[stanhubble]

I have seen some references to something similar.
What is the ftp "client" that you are using?
are you using anonymous ftp or with a user login?

also any globbing and nmap changes could have an effect on how the client/server handles the mget command.

unix42

 

[stanhubble]

sorry hit the wrong button.

unix42 had emailed me a problem with a linux system that had a similar error response and it

> Bad directory components
> can't find list of remote files, oops

it was a problem of the ls command not available within the anonymous ftp structure


hth
stan hubble