Hi all,

I'm trying to get to the bottom of curious behaviour exhibited by
Internet Explorer 5 (5.5 actually) when using it to list files via FTP
to our AIX boxes.

When ftp'ing to our AIX 4.3.3 boxes the display is normally OK.
However, when ftp'ing to our AIX 5.2 boxes the display prefixes the
directory or file name with the directory or file access time. Thus a
file called "smit.log" might appear as "11:04 smit.log". Obviously
this causes problems if you double click on a directory for example to
cd to that directory, as IE passes back the file name plus time and
the AIX box doesn't recognise it. Similarly, the "Modified" column in
the IE display shows a constant "01/01/1980 12:00".

Obviously this behaviour is connected to the way the ls -l command
displays date and times. However, although I can change the behaviour
of ls -l by changing the value of environment variables (LANG or
LC_TIME for example) I cannot get the ftp behaviour to change no
matter what I do.

Any thoughts anyone?

Many thanks.

Tim Kearsley
HBS Milton Keynes