Hints about a script that read ftp contents ....

[simon place]

On the ftp holding my web space (ftp server: ProFTPD 1.2.0pre10 ) a 'stat 
*.pdf'  command will list all pdf files in all sub directories recursively, ( 
and this is meant to be fairly standard,) unfortunately using ftp commands 
directly shows up the server os dependent format that directories are listed 
in ( usually UNIX ) but the functions to interpret this are in the ftp lib and 
there's a more general interpretation module out there somewhere ( handles 
more server os's )