Re: Internet Explorer FTP access

From: Alun Jones [MS MVP] (alun_at_texis.com)
Date: 06/10/03 

Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 02:43:24 GMT

In article <OobVEm5KDHA.2236@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>, "Jerry"
<jerry.giacinto@ketteng.com.nospam.com> wrote:
>However, I have a user who thinks that the
>customer using the site would like the functionality of opening the files
>from the site without downloading them first.

Your user is apparently unaware that FTP does not allow for "opening" files.
 FTP is for transfer of files - whole files - and does not allow for options
such as file and record locking, random access, shared access etc that is a
required part of "opening" a file. Even when his FTP client claims it is
"opening" the file, instead of actually generating network transactions for
these operations, the FTP client is downloading the file, to open a local
copy.

Alun.
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