[X4U] Tiger Observations (Not Elsewhere Documented)

[Doug McNutt]

At 19:53 -0700 5/1/05, Zane H. Healy wrote, and I edited:
>This actually makes sense (dropping IE), but as the only time I ever use it is when I'm accessing an FTP site, it got me to thinking so I checked.  It appears that Safari now tries to open ftp links in the Finder, which doesn't seem to be looking for me.

mount_ftp, the system tool that Finder uses to connect to an ftp server remains a one-way (download only) connection in Tiger even if you connect with a username and password and also have the required permissions.

As such it's useless for, say, maintaining a web site or connecting to a Linux box.

Learn to use curl or find a third party app like Interarchy or Fetch. Actually raw ftp from Terminal.app can do uploads. I suspect that mount-ftp is purposely emasculated in the name of (Steve's) security.

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And while I'm at it. I tried to install Tiger on a case sensitive HFS+ file system. Yes,  newfs -s will make one of those without using OS 10 Server.

The installer doesn't complain but the result won't boot. It was the same in Panther but I sort of hoped it would get fixed. Case sensitivity is nice if you're forever working with a UNIX box somewhere else.

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