Microsoft KB Archive/279170

= Problem with Command-Line FTP Client and Long File Names =

Article ID: 279170

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q279170



SYMPTOMS
If you issue an FTP get command in Ftp.exe to retrieve a file and the command line is longer than 20 characters, the following error message is displayed:

No such file or directory.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, use the cd command to switch to the appropriate directory first so that it is not necessary to specify the complete path after the get command.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This problem was corrected in Microsoft Windows 2000.

Keywords: kbprb KB279170

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